Definitions for sidelines

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sidelines side·line

Spelling: [sahyd-lahyn]

IPA: /ˈsaɪdˌlaɪn/

Sidelines is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 253 anagrams from letters in sidelines (deeiilnss).

Definitions for sidelines

noun

1. a line at the side of something.
2. a business or activity pursued in addition to one's primary business; a second occupation.
3. an additional or auxiliary line of goods:
4. Sports. either of the two lines defining the side boundaries of a field or court. sidelines, the area immediately beyond either sideline, where the substitute players sit.
5. sidelines, the position or point of view taken by a person who observes an activity or situation but does not directly participate in it.

verb (used with object)

1. to render incapable of participation, especially in anything involving vigorous, physical action, as a sport:

Origin of sidelines

An Americanism dating back to 1685-95; side¹ + line¹

Examples for sidelines

We will not sit on the sidelines and deposit our fate in the hands of others.

Bill and Lee, on the sidelines by the hangars, did not find all this very exciting.

Then, just as Williams had accepted his place on the sidelines, the name and face that faded from our memory came rushing back.

These are not sidelines to conservative Christian doctrine, but centerpieces of it.

From the sidelines it seemed as though they were wrestling with an invisible octopus.

Johnny whispered as he crouched on the sidelines waiting for action.

But while local groups fight back, the NRA is staying on the sidelines.

Selma becomes a biopic in which the hero shines while those who worked beside him are overlooked or relegated to the sidelines.

No one in all the world would have given so much to watch it from the sidelines.

The sidelines of the gang came through force of circumstances.