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Home advantage

Meaning in sports & fitness, with examples

nounCommon term

In sports & fitness, home advantage means: The possible benefit a team or athlete gains from competing at a familiar home venue.

In Turkish: ev sahibi avantajı, saha avantajı

How it is used

Commentators discuss home advantage through crowd support and familiar conditions.

Example sentences

  1. The loud crowd added to our home advantage.

    Support from local spectators is the benefit highlighted.

  2. Home advantage did not prevent a narrow defeat.

    A possible benefit does not guarantee victory.

Common collocations

  • enjoy home advantage
  • lose home advantage
  • matchA sports competition between two players or teams, such as a game of football, tennis or boxing, that ends with a result.
  • game planThe strategy a coach or team prepares for a particular match, including how to play and how to deal with the opponent's strengths.

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