1A small field or enclosure where horses are kept or exercised.

1. 1.1 An enclosure adjoining a racecourse or track where horses or cars are gathered and displayed before a race.
   （赛马前的）参赛马集中场；（赛车前的）参赛车停车场
   I went across the course to see the horses in the paddock

   Example sentencesExamples

   • But there was a stroke of good fortune for Fallon in the paddock before the race as Gift Horse lashed out with his hind legs, narrowly missing the jockey.
   • It's 6: 01 p.m. and the horses come from the darkness of the paddock tunnel into the track's sunlight.
   • Workers spread across the racing surface and in the paddock in the early afternoon and refused to let racing begin.
   • Furthermore, the track used an elevated wood-chip walking path in the infield for horses to cut through on their way from the backstretch to the paddock.
   • A different kind of scheme was going on in the paddock at the racecourse.
   • Saki watched in humor as Noir raced around the paddock trying to get a grip on any of the horses.
   • The signs were bad in the paddock before the race where he was sweating behind his hind legs and he looked dull.
   • As they were led back to the paddock after the race one wondered what was on the mind of Cahill after such a blistering performance on what was weather wise, a miserable day.
   • The frames of his glasses held together by duct tape, the man waits at the entrance to the paddock for the first horse to arrive.
   • Everyone said he was one of the quietest horses in the paddock.
   • ‘I'd never seen so many people in the paddock there after a race,’ Swan later said.
   • He led the old horse down the track to the paddock.
   • Most often, Storm Flag Flying has shown a tendency to freeze and not move while in the paddock before a race.
   • The views from this property are a main selling point, as are the extensive paddocks and adjoining buildings, which could greatly extend the house or provide guest accommodation.
   • Prior to the race, punters flocked to the paddock to watch the horses being paraded and cast a critical eye over their fancies.
   • What is now largely settled land on the more direct route was at that time paddocks and stables for race horses, and it seemed to me then that I passed through a kind of wild route to get home.
   • No hunting took place, but a crowd gathered around the racecourse paddock to hear a number of speeches.
   • Currently, a fee is considered earned when the horse leaves the paddock.
   • Fans wishing to get a final look at dual classic winner Point Given will have the opportunity on Wednesday when he will be paraded in the paddock and on the track.
   • Dogs were exercised for 15 minutes twice daily in a paddock and raced 500 m twice weekly.
2. 1.2Australian, NZ A field or plot of land enclosed by fencing or defined by natural boundaries.
   〈澳／新西兰〉设有围栏的（或以自然边界隔开的）一片土地
   the sheep have returned to their previously grazed paddocks

   Example sentencesExamples

   • A few friends met and had a bit of fun coursing in a paddock of 400 acres enclosed with wire netting.
   • Once land dries, graze out the soiled paddocks in order to maintain grass quality.
   • Panic was not an option for Ronald Mobbs when the engine of his private plane stopped mid-air just seconds before landing in a paddock outside Bundaberg yesterday.
   • This includes levelling 55 hectares of paddocks to reduce the accumulation of water on the land during floods, tree plantings and improvement of drainage systems.
   • Forests of fir, pine and spruce trees enclose the ranch's paddocks and meadows in every direction.
   • In rotational grazing the pasture is divided into paddocks and the livestock moved from paddock to paddock.
   • They wanted farmers to adopt improved grazing techniques by fencing paddocks or camps where animals could be left overnight.
   • It's dry and dusty with red dirt and big skies and broad acre paddocks of wheat and sheep.
   • About nine months ago we off-loaded surplus sheep and cattle stock, because we simply couldn't feed them from natural paddock pastures.
   • As he places fence posts in a pasture paddock, he talks about grass.
   • That happened in agriculture - out in the paddocks and the cornfields - but, ultimately, the food ends up on people's plates, sustaining the population.
   • To accommodate this difference in growth rate, one or more paddocks could be cut for hay in the spring while other paddocks are grazed.
   • Intensive rotational grazing systems usually have more than seven paddocks with grazing periods of less than one week to as little as a half day.
   • The composition of the supplements fed to steers grazing mixed grass paddocks is listed in Table 4.
   • The protracted dry season has created problems for many sheep producers throughout the agricultural region with paddocks devoid of green grass and pasture.
   • During the grazing period, cows were rotated among the four paddocks within each pasture treatment as forage availability within a paddock became limited.
   • We all made it across the rope-bridge, and saw some Irish paddocks of land.
   • Is the field of concern a grazing paddock, intensive silage field or reclaimed bog?
   • You may need to offer additional land for paddocks to make them attractive to tenants.
   • Jonny had now flown past the old record and was looking for a good paddock to land in near the road.

   Synonyms

   meadow, pasture, green, pen, grassland, pastureland, sward

Keep (a horse) in a paddock.

山坡上围栏里的马群。