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See also: Racing
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
racing (countable and uncountable, plural racings)
- The sport of competing in races.
- 1870, Delabere Pritchett Blaine, An encyclopaedia of rural sports, page 231:
- Chariot racings are probably, however, those in which the horse first distinguished himself as a courser, and we believe our earliest notices on the subject point to those of Persia, which were practised at the sacrifices made to the sun […]
- 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:
- The war years have not greatly altered running conditions on the East Coast route north of Edinburgh. It was never a racing ground, and the heavier loads and the possibility of indifferent coal have been only partially balanced by the increases in running times of the principal trains.
Derived terms[edit]
- automobile racing
- auto racing
- banger racing
- bathtub racing
- bracket racing
- British racing green
- car racing
- dog racing
- drag boat racing
- drag-racing
- drag racing
- drag-racing boat
- drag racing boat
- fleet racing
- greyhound racing
- harness racing
- horse racing
- ice racing
- match racing
- motor racing
- motor-racing
- pigeon racing
- prototype racing
- racing bike
- racing briefs
- racing car
- racing-car
- racing certainty
- racing crab
- racing driver
- racing form
- racing green
- racing jack
- racing line
- racing prototype
- racing thoughts
- road racing
- running and racing
- set pulses racing
- sledge racing
- slot racing
- street racing
- wok racing
Descendants[edit]
- → Thai: ซิ่ง (sîng)
Translations[edit]
the sport of competing in races
Verb[edit]
racing
- present participle and gerund of race