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. Types Variations of fairs incl ...

s. Fairground, Fairgrounds, Fair Ground or Fair Grounds may also refer to:

Places

Canada

* Fairground, Ontario, a community

United States

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 The park is home tHagerstown BMX a biking trackHagerstown I ...

, a park in Hagerstown, Maryland *

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 *

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 *

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

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

* "Fairground" (Simply Red song) * "Fairground", by James from the album '' Strip-mine''

Other uses

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 ...