Crossword-Solution: HIPPODROME
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hippodrome | n. | A place set apart for equestrian and chariot races. |
| Hippodrome | n. | An arena for equestrian performances; a circus. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “HIPPODROME”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ancient chariot racing course | 1 answer |
| a place set apart for equestrian and chariot races | 1 answer |
| Track for chariot races. | 1 answer |
| Theatre originally for horse racing | 1 answer |
| Theatre or concert hall | 1 answer |
| Stadium for horse shows | 1 answer |
| Stadium for chariot races | 1 answer |
| Chariot-racing arena of ancient Greece | 1 answer |
| Arena of a sort | 1 answer |
| Racecourse | 7 answers |
| BUILDING for sports | 8 answers |
| A STADIUM FOR HORSE SHOWS OR HORSE RACES | 10 answers |
| Field of action. | 13 answers |
| ATHLETIC field | 16 answers |
| CIRCUS ___ | 22 answers |
| Race meeting | 35 answers |
| arena | 45 answers |
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Sentences with HIPPODROME (5)
The Pagan Zosimus agrees with the three ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius, Socrates, and Sozomen, that the sacred ornaments of the temple of Delphi were removed to Constantinople by the order of Constantine; and among these the serpentine pillar of the Hippodrome is particularly mentioned.
The emperor Theodosius, when he received the news of the victory, interrupted the horse-races; and singing, as he marched through the streets, a suitable psalm, conducted his people from the Hippodrome to the church, where he spent the remainder of the day in grateful devotion.
After this popular concession, Justinian proceeded to the hippodrome to confess his own errors, and to accept the repentance of his grateful subjects; but they distrusted his assurances, though solemnly pronounced in the presence of the holy Gospels; and the emperor, alarmed by their distrust, retreated with precipitation to the strong fortress of the palace.
With their broad and double-edged battle-axes on their shoulders, they attended the Greek emperor to the temple, the senate, and the hippodrome; he slept and feasted under their trusty guard; and the keys of the palace, the treasury, and the capital, were held by the firm and faithful hands of the Varangians.
But the scene was soon changed; and before his departure, the hippodrome streamed with the blood of his noblest captives.
Quotes with HIPPODROME (2)
The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't just that you must be agile, or that you must be good with horses, or that you must be strong and steady as the horse careens to the far end of the arena and back with you riding on its back. It was that you must hide inside your costume a little of a killer's heart. The animal will be tender with you, and you with it, but the animal never forgets that when what it wants for survival requires your death, it will become unaf…
To call the place an anthill would be like calling the Versailles Palace a single-family home. Earthen ramparts rose almost to the tops of the surrounding trees--a hundred feet at least. The circumference could have accommodated a Roman hippodrome. A steady stream of soldiers and drones swarmed in and out of the mound. Some carried fallen trees. One, inexplicably, was dragging a 1967 Chevy Impala.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1960–2021).