Fairground most typically refers to a permanent space that hosts
fair
A fair (archaic: faire or fayre) is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities. Fairs are typically temporary with scheduled times lasting from an afternoon to several weeks.
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Fairground, Fairgrounds, Fair Ground or Fair Grounds may also refer to:
Places
Canada
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Fairground, Ontario, a community
United States
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Fairground, St. Louis
Fairground is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood's boundaries are defined as Glasgow Avenue on the east, west and North Florissant Avenues on the north, Warne on the west, and Fairground Park
Fairground Park is a municipal ...
, a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri
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Fairground Park
Fairground Park is a municipal park that opened in 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was originally a privately owned facility, first used by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association for the St. Louis Exposition from 1856 through 1902 ...
, a municipal park in St. Louis, Missouri
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Fairgrounds, New Orleans
Fairgrounds is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: Florida Avenue, Dugue, Treasure, Republic and Abundance Streets to t ...
, a city neighborhood
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Fairgrounds Park
Fairgrounds Park (formerly known as Hagerstown Fairgrounds) is an open land park restored from fairgrounds located off Cleveland Avenue in Hagerstown, Maryland, United States.
Attractions
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, a park in Hagerstown, Maryland
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Fairgrounds Field
Fairgrounds Field is a ballpark located in Robstown, Texas. It was the home stadium of the Coastal Bend Thunder of the United League Baseball and the Corpus Christi Fuel of the Southern Premier Soccer League and the former home of the Corpus Chri ...
, a ballpark in Robstown, Texas
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Fairgrounds Speedway
Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway is a motorsport racetrack located at the Nashville Fairgrounds near downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The track is the second-oldest continually operating track in the United States. The track held NASCAR Grand Natio ...
, an independent racetrack near Nashville, Tennessee
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Fair Grounds Race Course
Fair Grounds Race Course, often known as New Orleans Fair Grounds, is a thoroughbred racetrack and racino in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is operated by Churchill Downs Louisiana Horseracing Company, LLC.
As early as 1838 Bernard de Marigny, Ju ...
, a thoroughbred racetrack and casino in New Orleans
Music
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Fair Ground (band)
Pete Lesperance is a Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as the lead guitarist for the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem. Lesperance was born October 13, 1968, in Scarborough, Ontario. Lesperance was a guitarist in ...
, a Canadian alternative rock band
Songs
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"Fairground" (Simply Red song)
* "Fairground", by James from the album ''
Strip-mine''
Other uses
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Fair territory
In baseball, a fair ball is a batted ball that entitles the batter (baseball), batter to attempt to reach first base. By contrast, a foul ball is a batted ball that does not entitle the batter to attempt to reach first base. Whether a batted ball i ...
, the main area of a baseball field
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Fairground Gaming, an online gaming company
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Fair Grounds (organization), a UK-based Fair Trade social enterprise
See also
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Fair green (disambiguation)
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