Sports venue

{{Short description|Building, structure, or place dedicated to sports}}

A sports venue is a building, structure, or place in which a sporting competition is held.

A stadium (plural: stadiums or stadia)Stadia is the Latin plural form, but both are used in English. [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stadium Dictionary.com] or arena is a place or venue for sports or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.Nussli Group [https://archive.today/20120905020454/http://www.nussli.com/en/projects/stadium-construction.html?_r=1&hp "Stadium Construction Projects"]

There are various types of sporting venues, depending on the sport played. For example: the racetrack for car racing, the hippodrome for horse racing, the velodrome for cycling, and the swimming pool for swimming. Some sporting venues can accommodate over one hundred thousand spectators, such as the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the United States, which has a capacity of 257,325 people.