Definition of Road game

Road (short for on the road), more commonly know as an away game in the U.K., is a reference to all cities and stadia/arenas/fields/venues where an athletic team plays games for which it is not the host. Most professional teams represent cities or towns and amateur sports teams often represent academic institutions. Each team has a location where it practices during the season and where it hosts games. When it is not the host it must travel to games (usually by bus or car, hence road, though increasingly also by plane for longer journeys). Thus when a team is not hosting a game the team is described as the road team, the visiting team or the away team, and the game is described as a road game or an away game for that team. The venue that the game is being played is described as the visiting stadium or the road. The host team is said to be the home team.