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Grandstand

noun

The audience at a stadium or racetrack.

A stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof. Synonym: covered stand.

verb

Perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause.

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"Grandstand" Quotes from Famous Books

... what sort of crazy or calculating grandstand play Darrin is trying to make just now?" pondered Midshipman Jetson, when informed of ...

— Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis - Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen • H. Irving Hancock

... and baseball contests, which roused great excitement, but the crowning glory of the time was the Divisional sports which were held in a large field at a place called Tincques on the St. Pol road. A grandstand and many marquees had been erected, and the various events gave great delight to the thousands of spectators. In the evening our concert party gave a performance on the stage in the open air, which was witnessed by a ...

— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott

... much I really liked her until I saw her familiar face among all those strangers. There were thousands of people there, Marilla. It made me feel dreadfully insignificant. And Miss Barry took us up to the grandstand to see the horse races. Mrs. Lynde wouldn't go; she said horse racing was an abomination and, she being a church member, thought it her bounden duty to set a good example by staying away. But there were so many there ...

— Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... up nights in the hay in the shed Bildad had showed us and ate with the niggers early and at night when the race people had all gone away. The men from home stayed mostly in the grandstand and betting field, and didn't come out around the places where the horses are kept except to the paddocks just before a race when the horses are saddled. At Saratoga they don't have paddocks under an open shed as at Lexington and Churchill Downs and other tracks down in our country, but ...

— Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories • Sherwood Anderson