Crossword clues for velodrome
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"building for bicycle races," 1892, from French vélodrome, from vélo, colloquial abbreviation of vélocipède (see velocipede) + -drome, as in hippodrome.
Wiktionary
n. An indoor arena, having an oval banked track for bicycle racing.
Wikipedia
A velodrome is an arena for track cycling. Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks, consisting of two 180-degree circular bends connected by two straights. The straights transition to the circular turn through a moderate easement curve.
Usage examples of "velodrome".
The spectator rarely sees the technical side of cycling, but behind the gorgeous rainbow blur of the peloton is the more boring reality that road racing is a carefully calibrated thing, and often a race is won by a mere fraction of acceleration that was generated in a performance lab or a wind tunnel or a velodrome long before the race ever started.
We went into a velodrome to look at my position on the bike and determine where I was losing power.
There was a velodrome of parquet-floor between them and, as if I was expected, one of the doors was ajar.
Richard Arena, to my left the Velodrome and, beyond it, looming like the Colosseum, the gray, not quite finished, monumental stadium.
A chat on some interesting topic, naturally, like the races at the velodrome or the Russo-Japanese war.