- a place with a flat open area in the middle and seats around it where people can watch sports and entertainment
- a concert at Wembley Arena
- an indoor sports arena
- a hockey/basketball arena
- plans to construct a new downtown arena
Extra ExamplesTopics Sports: other sportsc1- He left the arena to loud applause.
- The Hurricanes have a new home arena.
- The rider has to halt the horse in the arena.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- Olympic
- sports
- training
- …
- build
- leave
- floor
- in an/the arena
- into an/the arena
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- (formal) an area of activity that interests the public, especially one where there is a lot of opposition between different groups or countries
- the political/international arena
Extra ExamplesTopics Politicsc1- I want to work outside the arena of competition.
- Some documents have now emerged into the public arena.
- The company has been very successful in the commercial arena.
- The conference should provide an arena for marketing our new products.
- This observation also applies in the environmental policy arena.
- Trades unions are active both in individual workplaces and in the wider arena of the state.
- the challenges of bringing a business into the online arena
- Space became an arena for global competition between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- global
- international
- national
- …
- create
- provide
- emerge into
- …
- in an/the arena
- within an/the arena
- outside an/the arena
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin harena, arena ‘sand, sand-strewn place of combat’.
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