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  • noun A playing field.
  • noun The area within which a game (especially a video game) is played.

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Examples

  • Here's a HOWTO for converting a pinball machine's light-up playfield into an electrified coffee-table; the recipe calls for a beat-up playfield from a nonfunctional pinball machine, which is cool, since it avoids the guilt associated with decommissioning a glorious old pinball machine.

    Boing Boing 2006

  • The playfield is the two-dimensional silhouette cast by the world's physical objects.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Darren Zenko 2011

  • It is also a telling message to every Indian who thinks that sports begins and ends in that quadrangle called playfield: there is definitely life after the final whistle which demands a steady flow of money.

    The Times of India 2010

  • Government intervention stifles competition because their vast resources make for an uneven playfield.

    In health care reform debate, Obama puts focus on affordability 2009

  • In the Madonna episode, if she were to sing, I think she could be great doing “this used to be my playground,” if she were to be mourning the loss of her beloved Cheerios and her power on the playfield of the school.

    Jane Lynch 'campaigning strongly' for Sue Sylvester to sing on 'Glee': An EW exclusive! | EW.com 2009

  • A plunger shoots a ball onto a steep wooden playfield where it gets bounced hard from bumper to bumper.

    In Short Supply: Pinball Wizards Who Can Fix Old Machines 2010

  • Going on a rip with Drop7, slamming the right numbered tokens into the playfield to reach a dizzying score, is one of the greatest highs of gaming in this generation.

    Top 25 iPhone Games IGN Part 5 | CurveHouse.com 2010

  • Leh-Ladakh, January 23 (Scoop News) - J&K Minister for Youth Services and Sports R.S. Chib while asserting that Ladakh has great potential for promotion of winter sports, on Saturday said that the Government was determined to upgrade sports infrastructure, including, Ice Hockey Rink and existing Stadium and playfield in the mountainous district.

    Ice Hockey Rink coming up at Rs. 7.71 crore at Leh in Ladakh 2010

  • Leh-Ladakh, January 23 (Scoop News) - J&K Minister for Youth Services and Sports R.S. Chib while asserting that Ladakh has great potential for promotion of winter sports, on Saturday said that the Government was determined to upgrade sports infrastructure, including, Ice Hockey Rink and existing Stadium and playfield in the mountainous district.

    Ice Hockey Rink coming up at Rs. 7.71 crore at Leh in Ladakh 2010

  • Having said that, we all have a duty to vote for the candidate who best represents not only our aspirations but one whom the great american nation NEED, especially after the disastrous GW period characterised by such monumental failures as the rise is anti-american sentiments worldwide, terrible war in Iraq, Housing meltdown, disastrous foreign policy, declining economy, the changing global playfield to name but a few.

    Hillary Backer Bayh Pressing House Members Not to Endorse At All 2009

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