hippodrome

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Every cobbled street around the mosque was packed, as well as the open spaces along the length of the ancient hippodrome where Roman chariots once raced.

From New York Times

The change of status would also not affect the World Heritage status of the historic peninsula which encompasses the Ottoman Topkapi Palace, and ancient hippodrome and the Blue Mosque, he added.

From New York Times

The ship was part of Viminacium, a sprawling Roman city of 45,000 people with a hippodrome, fortifications, a forum, palace, temples, amphitheatre, aqueducts, baths and workshops.

From Reuters

At the matinee I attended in November, the woman next to me sprang up before the song was even over, hollering through cupped hands as if she were at a hippodrome.

From New York Times

The pier, Domingo mused, was promising: an enclosed place—a bottleneck of carnival games and penny arcades and a century-old hippodrome—that offers no easy means of escape.

From The New Yorker