road game
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3.5
- noun
- /roʊd ɡeɪm/
- US
:
partido fuera de casa
- Penn State University Nittany Lions had a good road game against the Illinois University Illini last Saturday.
- win a road game
- play road games
- consecutive road games
Examples
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Next Wednesday's road game against Sporting Kansas City will be broadcast on NBC Sports Network.
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The Pitt game was forgivable because it was a road game against a top 5 team.
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All right, girls, time for our favorite road game.
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This is your road game.
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I watched all your road games.
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After tonight, the Bucks will play 3 road games and 4 home games.
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The Houston Rockets play a pair of road games this weekend.
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With this being Sean's first road game of the season, we felt it.
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We wanted four points from this stretch of two road games, and that's exactly what we got.
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The team is preparing for a difficult road game against their biggest rivals next week.
Synonyms
9
2.7
A sports match played at the other team's stadium
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Morphology
The meaning 'a sports game played at an opponent's venue' is partly inferable from combining 'road' (associated with travel/being away) and 'game' (a sports contest), but it relies on the idiomatic use of 'on the road' = 'away' in sporting contexts. This metaphorical extension is somewhat predictable for learners who know 'road' and 'game', but it is not fully literal or universally obvious, so the expression is semi-transparent.
Etymology
Road game comes from sports teams literally traveling on the road to play a game at another team's place. So, 'road game' means a match played 'away', not at your own stadium.