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racing

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈɹeɪsɪŋ//

The sport of competing in races.

noun

  1. 1

    The sport of competing in races.

    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 […]

    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.

Etymology

By surface analysis, race + -ing.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of racepresent participle and gerund of race

Forms

plural
racings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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