touchline

• touch line

touch +‎ line

touchline (plural touchlines)

1. (rugby, soccer) One of the lines that mark the border limits of the pitch.

   Synonym: (in Canadian football, field lacrosse and basketball) sideline

   • 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport‎:

     French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 107:

     Some kids were having a kickabout on the grass beside the walkway, cheering, groaning, calling for the ball, absorbed in the game, a self-contained universe marked out by jackets for goalposts and invisible touchlines.