racing

See also: Racing

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, race +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪsɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ

Noun

racing (countable and uncountable, plural racings)

1. 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

• 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

• → Thai: ซิ่ง (sîng)

Translations

the sport of competing in races

• Bulgarian: надбягване (bg) n (nadbjagvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 競賽／竞赛 (zh) (jìngsài), 競速／竞速 (zh) (jìngsù), 競走／竞走 (zh) (jìngzǒu) (athletic racing)

• French: course (fr) f
• Georgian: რბოლა (rbola)
• German: Rennen (de) n
• Irish: rásaíocht f
• Japanese: 競走 (ja) (きょうそう, kyōsō)
• Romanian: cursă (ro)
• Russian: го́нки (ru) f pl (gónki)

Verb

racing

1. present participle and gerund of race

Anagrams

• Crigan, Garčin, arcing, caring