Grandstand
noun
The large main seating area for people at a sports stadium or similar event.
The spectators watched the match from the grandstand.
Often appears as...
- pack the grandstand
- sit in grandstand
verb
To show off or behave in a way that is intended to impress people.
John is always grandstanding in meetings, trying to look smarter than everyone else.
Often appears as...
- grandstanding in front of
- stop grandstanding
Usage tips
Disapproving
Idiomatic
noun
The large main seating area for people at a sports stadium or similar event.
The spectators watched the match from the grandstand.
Often appears as...
- pack the grandstand
- sit in grandstand
verb
To show off or behave in a way that is intended to impress people.
John is always grandstanding in meetings, trying to look smarter than everyone else.
Often appears as...
- grandstanding in front of
- stop grandstanding
Usage tips
Disapproving
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Event Seating
Refers to tiered seats at events where viewers watch important happenings.
The band played energetically, facing the grandstand filled with fans.
Pro Tip 2/3Spectator Focus
The word emphasizes where audiences sit to get the best view, often centrally located.
Veterans paraded past the grandstand, saluting the cheering crowd.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Ordinary Seats
Grandstands are usually larger and more prominent than other seating areas.
We secured seats in the grandstand rather than the bleachers for a better view.
Pro Tip 1/3Event Seating
Refers to tiered seats at events where viewers watch important happenings.
The band played energetically, facing the grandstand filled with fans.
Pro Tip 2/3Spectator Focus
The word emphasizes where audiences sit to get the best view, often centrally located.
Veterans paraded past the grandstand, saluting the cheering crowd.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Ordinary Seats
Grandstands are usually larger and more prominent than other seating areas.
We secured seats in the grandstand rather than the bleachers for a better view.
Pro Tip 1/3Event Seating
Refers to tiered seats at events where viewers watch important happenings.
The band played energetically, facing the grandstand filled with fans.
Pro Tip 2/3Spectator Focus
The word emphasizes where audiences sit to get the best view, often centrally located.
Veterans paraded past the grandstand, saluting the cheering crowd.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Ordinary Seats
Grandstands are usually larger and more prominent than other seating areas.
We secured seats in the grandstand rather than the bleachers for a better view.
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Bull in the Stands PIPE Do...
should know Bulls can jump it's a nightmare scenario without warning the raging beast leaves the wall and launches itself into the grandstands for the people in the front row it's
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Cutest Baby Chimp Learns...
the baby spends the first few months of its life clinging to its mother and from this privileged and protected position it has a grandstand view of what's going
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Dennis Hong: Making a...
There's the grandstand now. And he's following that van that's out in front of him. Well there comes the first box.
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Bull in the Stands PIPE Do...
should know Bulls can jump it's a nightmare scenario without warning the raging beast leaves the wall and launches itself into the grandstands for the people in the front row it's
Video examples
Cutest Baby Chimp Learns...
the baby spends the first few months of its life clinging to its mother and from this privileged and protected position it has a grandstand view of what's going
Video examples
Dennis Hong: Making a...
There's the grandstand now. And he's following that van that's out in front of him. Well there comes the first box.
Example 1 of 3
Quote examples
Steve Bullock
American Politician
Political grandstanding might make for great soundbites for the evening news, but it will do nothing to help the people that go to work every day knowing that they're one health emergency away from bankruptcy. It will do nothing to help the hospitals struggling to keep their doors open under the crushing cost of uncompensated care.
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Mary H.K. Choi
South Korean Author
I roll my eyes at the grandstanding blowhards who have 'fixed' themselves, but I keep up with the gizmos and apps that track people's various rhythms. I'm no lifelogger or body-hacker, but I'm curious, and I want to be in-tune enough to know what's really the matter so I can level up and be at my most awesome.
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Kurt Busch
American Driver
That's what race fans love to see. That's what they bought this ticket for. That's what they're sitting in the grandstands rooting on their favorite driver for is to see him get out there, mix it up clean and bring it home just like we were, third and fourth.
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Jacques Villeneuve
Canadian Celebrity
You need to let the drivers go for it, and if they bang wheels, too bad. It's fun, it's a good show, the fans are up in the grandstands, and they can scream and shout about it... that's good; that's what you want.
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Lucy Powell
British Politician
Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.
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Jackie Robinson
American Baseball Player
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Filipino Statesman
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
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Mardy Fish
American Tennis Player
I don't want to play on the grandstand. I want to play on the stadium.
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Marcia Gay Harden
American Actress
In Hollywood, a lot of acting feels like grandstanding.
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Martin Freeman
English Actor
Most people aren't these grandstanding heroes.
Quote examples
Steve Bullock
American Politician
Political grandstanding might make for great soundbites for the evening news, but it will do nothing to help the people that go to work every day knowing that they're one health emergency away from bankruptcy. It will do nothing to help the hospitals struggling to keep their doors open under the crushing cost of uncompensated care.
Quote examples
Mary H.K. Choi
South Korean Author
I roll my eyes at the grandstanding blowhards who have 'fixed' themselves, but I keep up with the gizmos and apps that track people's various rhythms. I'm no lifelogger or body-hacker, but I'm curious, and I want to be in-tune enough to know what's really the matter so I can level up and be at my most awesome.
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Kurt Busch
American Driver
That's what race fans love to see. That's what they bought this ticket for. That's what they're sitting in the grandstands rooting on their favorite driver for is to see him get out there, mix it up clean and bring it home just like we were, third and fourth.
Quote examples
Jacques Villeneuve
Canadian Celebrity
You need to let the drivers go for it, and if they bang wheels, too bad. It's fun, it's a good show, the fans are up in the grandstands, and they can scream and shout about it... that's good; that's what you want.
Quote examples
Lucy Powell
British Politician
Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.
Quote examples
Jackie Robinson
American Baseball Player
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Quote examples
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Filipino Statesman
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
Quote examples
Mardy Fish
American Tennis Player
I don't want to play on the grandstand. I want to play on the stadium.
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Marcia Gay Harden
American Actress
In Hollywood, a lot of acting feels like grandstanding.
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Martin Freeman
English Actor
Most people aren't these grandstanding heroes.
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