It seemed silly for the crowd to applaud or groan over what you had already felt in your fingers or even in your arms as you braced to shoot or for that matter in your eyes: when he was hot he could see the separate threads wound into the strings looping the hoop. Yet at the start of the game when you came out for warm-up and could see all the town clunkers sitting in the back of thebleachers elbowing each other and the cheerleaders wisecracking with the racier male teachers, the crowd then seemed right inside you, your liver and lungs and stomach.
1999, Jim Puhalla, Jeff Krans, Mike Goatley,Sports Fields: A Manual for Design, Construction and Maintenance - Page 371:
Warnings such as "watch your step" can be provided when there is a small step off ableacher to the pavement or ground level.
2004, Josh Pahigian, Kevin O'Connell,The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip:
We preferbleacher seats to Grandstand Sections 1-9. And in truth, quite a fewbleacher seats offer a better view of the action than the Right Field Boxes do.Bleacher seats are made of comfortable plastic,[…]
(US,television, usually in theplural, by extension) The tiered seating provided for theaudience at a television filming.
2010, Jeremy G. Butler,Television Style:
In practice, audience members often have badly obstructed views of the sets—whether due to obstructive camera dollies and production personnel or viewers sitting in thebleachers off to the side of the set that is currently being used.
