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Bookmark or Share- played soccer in/on the field | WordReference ForumsThey would not see it as an enclosed area because they're too close to it. Also, in their perspective, it's not really an enclosed area. The focus here is that the field is a surface because of what the players use the field for and because of their perspective, which is where they are in relation to the field. They're close to the field.
- Preposition: in/on/at the field/playground - WordReference ForumsThe students (soccer players) are playing in the field/playground. They are playing inside the field/playground. (Inside the place called the field or playground - limited by the outer walls or fences, and not only the turf or grass or cement or earth area). And moreover they might play at other things or games, not necessarily soccer.
- Dressing room/changing room or locker room ... - WordReference Forums"Footballers" and "match" looks like non-US English (in the US, we would say "football players" and "game"), so you should use a British or other Commonwealth term. In the US, all three are used, but only one of them in relation to sports:
- puppy-player-wither | WordReference Forumsfew of my friends had ambitions to work there. As small children, we had the same dreams that other kids did; we wanted to be astronauts or football players or action heroes. I wanted to be a professional puppy-player-wither, which at the time seemed eminently reasonable. J. D. Vance -...
- duck-off - WordReference ForumsThe sentence is from a game where players must hatch as many ducks as possible. Some ducks are born mutants and players need to get rid of them. Maybe there is an idiomatic connotation here that I am not aware of. I found the following meanings of the word "duck-off" that don't seem to be relevant: 1. To lie down 2.
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