Sports venues

thumb|Narendra Modi Stadium, the current largest stadium by capacity, is designed to allow up to 132,000 people to spectate a [[cricket match.]]

thumb|The Palaestra at Olympia|palaestra at [[Olympia, Greece]] A palaestra or palestra (, or ; ) was any site of a Greek wrestling school in antiquity. Events requiring little space, such as boxing and wrestling, occurred there. Palaistrai functioned both independently and as a part of public gymnasia; a palaestra could exist without a gymnasium, but no gymnasium existed without a palaestra.

frozen body of water and/or hardened chemicals where people can ice skate or play winter sports

facility (building, structure, or place) dedicated to sports

financial transaction and form of advertising whereby a corporation or other entity purchases the right to name a facility or event, typically for a defined period of time

field on which baseball is played (for the whole stadium, see baseball park)

group of sports facilities

thumb|right|A scoreboard, during a game between the Detroit Red Wings and the [[Los Angeles Kings on March 9, 2007 at Joe Louis Arena]] thumb|right|Royal Military College Paladins bilingual scoreboard, inner field, [[Royal Military College of Canada]]

thumb|Fenway Park, home of the [[Boston Red Sox and the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball]]

thumb|Wooden bleachers

private suite in a sports arena

thumb|The grandstand at Churchill Downs A grandstand is a normally permanent structure for seating spectators, typically at sports stadiums and including both auto racing and horse racing. The grandstand is in essence like a single section of a stadium, but differs from a stadium in that it does not wrap all or most of the way around. Grandstands may have basic bench seating, but usually have individual chairs like a stadium. Grandstands are also usually covered with a roof, but are open at the front. They are often multi-tiered.

voluntary association

thumb|Karachi Gymkhana Club in 1890 Gymkhana () (, , , , ) is a British Raj term which originally referred to a place of assembly. The meaning then altered to denote a place where skill-based contests were held. "Gymkhana" is an Anglo-Indian expression, which is derived from the Persian word "Jamat-khana". Most gymkhanas have a Gymkhana Club associated with them, a term coined during the British Raj for gentlemen's club.