7-860: The Makati Coliseum is an indoor sporting arena located in Barangay Singkamas , Makati , Philippines. Built and operated by the Makati city government, it was the home venue of the Makati Super Crunch of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League in 2019. The coliseum has also played host to the basketball games of the Philippine Basketball Association , the Philippine Basketball League ,
14-403: A facility is typically called a stadium . The use of one term over the other has mostly to do with the type of event. Football (be it association , rugby , gridiron , Australian rules , or Gaelic ) is typically played in a stadium, while basketball , volleyball , handball , and ice hockey are typically played in an arena, although many of the larger arenas hold more spectators than do
21-488: A sports venue in the Philippines is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Indoor arena An arena is a large enclosed platform, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre , musical performances , and/or sporting events . It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators, and may be covered by a roof. The key feature of an arena
28-476: Is also the sport of indoor American football (one variant of which is explicitly known as arena football), a variant of the outdoor game that is designed for the usual smaller playing surface of most arenas; variants of other traditionally outdoor sports, including box lacrosse as well as futsal and indoor soccer , also exist. The term "arena" is also used loosely to refer to any event or type of event which either literally or metaphorically takes place in such
35-543: Is that the event space is the lowest point, allowing maximum visibility. Arenas are usually designed to accommodate a multitude of spectators. The word derives from Latin harena , a particularly fine-grained sand that covered the floor of ancient arenas such as the Colosseum in Rome , Italy, to absorb blood. The term arena is sometimes used as a synonym for a very large venue such as Pasadena's Rose Bowl , but such
42-873: The National Collegiate Athletic Association , the UNTV Cup , the University Athletic Association of the Philippines , and the National Athletic Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities . It has also been the venue of major boxing events, as well as conventions, concerts and sports festivals. During the COVID-19 pandemic , it has also been used as a vaccination site by the city government. This article about
49-541: The stadiums of smaller colleges or high schools. There are exceptions. The home of the Duke University men's and women's basketball teams would qualify as an arena, but the facility is called Cameron Indoor Stadium . Domed stadiums, which, like arenas, are enclosed but have the larger playing surfaces and seating capacities found in stadiums, are generally not referred to as arenas in North America. There
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