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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
racing
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a racing bike
▪ He bought a cool new racing bike.
a racing car (also a race car American English)
▪ He became a racing car driver.
a racing driver (=driving racing cars in competitions)
▪ world famous racing drivers like Lewis Hamilton
flat racing
golfing/sporting/racing etc calendar
▪ The Derby is a major event in the racing calendar.
horse racing
motor racing
racing car
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ He could, as Balestre had done before him, mould a new image for international car racing.
▪ Indy Car racing has been in existence since 1909.
▪ His hobbies are stock car racing and motor bikes.
greyhound
▪ The move would not interfere with greyhound racing and would leave the old Plough Lane football ground available for redevelopment.
▪ First division football is on offer at Aston Villa and rugby, speedway and greyhound racing are also regularly staged.
▪ Yesterday, it became apparent that those involved in greyhound racing feared that it would have a detrimental effect on their business.
horse
▪ Among the Peers was the Marquess of Zetland, aged 54 and better known for his love of horse racing.
▪ Freeze hits sport HORSE racing will be the sport hardest hit by the cold snap.
▪ Doncaster Central Library A substantial archive is devoted to the history of horse racing, and another to railways.
▪ Here you can also see National Hunt horse racing.
▪ I tried to put what I knew and surmised into the context of other sports. Horse racing, for instance.
▪ The overall picture is of the first generation harbouring little interest in sport, apart from horse racing!
mind
▪ Donna Ward glanced distractedly out of the window for a second, her mind racing, her hand on her book.
motor
▪ Male speaker Motor racing is very tricky.
▪ They're angry the motor racing team hasn't been able to improve on the reportedly £7million offer to tempt him back.
▪ But this beautifully illustrated book also provides a wonderful series of anecdotes from Edwards' life in motor racing.
▪ Sponsorship is important for such sporting activities as: golf, football, cricket and motor racing.
▪ Mansell has not embarked upon his twelfth full season in Grand Prix motor racing.
▪ In all respects, 1976 was an extraordinary year for Master James and for motor racing.
▪ It was one of the least gracious occasions I recall in my years in motor racing.
road
▪ In the North, road racing starts to resemble cyclo-cross, its country winter-sports version.
▪ Racing means road racing and speed work.
team
▪ They're angry the motor racing team hasn't been able to improve on the reportedly £7million offer to tempt him back.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's mind is racing
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A thaw has set in and clerk of the course Ian Renton reports racing will definitely go ahead.
▪ But this beautifully illustrated book also provides a wonderful series of anecdotes from Edwards' life in motor racing.
▪ For a long time, Emerson simply failed to sign the contracts which would have kept him in front-rank racing.
▪ Francis retired from racing but has built a new career as a best selling thriller writer.
▪ I learned from that outing that there is in top-level racing, as well as intelligence, a physical dimension which is vastly important.
▪ In fact, at any circuit where racing took place, there would be a powerful presence of Bugattis.
▪ Ocean racing is big business involving vast amounts of money.
▪ You may have been single-minded about racing, but I was also tied into my work.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bike
▪ Surtees started racing bikes in 1950 and had his first win at Brands Hatch on a Vincent in 1951 when only 17.
▪ I had a go on Nigel's racing bike.
▪ He showed the children his famed high-tech £17,500 Lotus prototype track racing bike and answered a barrage of questions.
car
▪ Like racing cars, except I detect a missing element of boldness.
▪ It's a high, like driving racing cars, flying airplanes.
▪ First they come to peep, then they play at racing cars.
▪ Honeycomb sandwich materials represent the ultimate in low weight and high stiffness, and have revolutionised aircraft and racing car design.
▪ It's a sport which attracts all sorts of racing car enthusiasts.
▪ From the owners of vintage cars to drivers who've invested thousands of pounds in buying and maintaining former racing cars.
▪ Aerospace manufacturers and racing car constructors can afford the necessary time and trouble; the car majors can not.
career
▪ Eric began his racing career only last July.
▪ During his racing career he rode 1,544 winners.
▪ His racing career hung in the balance but Cardus was back on the track within a miraculously short time.
▪ That year also saw Jackie Stewart end his racing career with his third championship, with Emerson as his runner-up.
▪ Glover, 45, and a former top-notch jump jockey, took up training relatively late in his racing career.
▪ Perry McCarthy had one of the saddest days of his racing career.
circuit
▪ Read in studio Hard-hit farmers have discovered a new way to make money ... by turning their fields into racing circuits.
▪ Competitors had to drive around the country's top racing circuits within the five-day time period.
▪ He recruits young drivers from their results on the karting and lower formula racing circuit.
▪ Sainz produced a typically uncompromising display in his Toyota Celica around the stately homes and racing circuits of the north Midlands.
▪ Brands Hatch, the famous racing circuit, is a fifteen-minute drive away.
driver
▪ The couple were introduced by Steffi's racing driver brother Michael.
▪ Second, in making occupational and recreational choices, for example being a racing driver or going climbing, people do take risks.
▪ Until 1979, Ward worked as a racing driver.
▪ The racing driver one, after all.
▪ Company men, like former world champion racing driver Jackie Stewart believe it's a world beater.
▪ Clark, twice world champion racing driver, was the first honorary freeman of Duns.
▪ The house was built in the 1930s by EliÜka Junkova, a celebrated female racing driver with a love of Bugatti motorcars.
team
▪ He has a 5,000-acre Northamptonshire estate and the family fortune allowed him to run a Formula One racing team.
▪ Receivers go in at Formula One racing team.
world
▪ The racing world was more fickle than any other she knew of.
▪ Half the racing world had seen me pick up Nolan and knew I could defend myself.
▪ History comes alive with a tour of Newmarket, the Headquarters of the racing world.
▪ Bachelor's Button throws the racing world into mourning by beating Pretty Polly.
▪ In part two: Taking a back seat ... Mansell's retirement sends motor racing world in a spin.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
racing dogs
▪ a racing bicycle
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But there are no hard and fast rules about the physique of a racing cyclist.
▪ Competitors had to drive around the country's top racing circuits within the five-day time period.
▪ It's a high, like driving racing cars, flying airplanes.
▪ The couple were introduced by Steffi's racing driver brother Michael.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Racing

Race \Race\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raced (r[=a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Racing (r[=a]"s[i^]ng).]

  1. To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.

  2. (Steam Mach.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.

Racing

Racing \Ra"cing\ (r[=a]"s[i^]ng), a. & n. from Race, v. t. & i.

Racing crab (Zo["o]l.), an ocypodian.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
racing

1670s, verbal noun from race (v.).

Wiktionary
racing

n. The sport of competing in races. vb. (present participle of race English)

WordNet
racing

n. the sport of engaging in contests of speed

Wikipedia
Racing

In sport, racing is a competition of speed, against an objective criterion, usually a clock or to a specific point. The competitors in a race try to complete a given task in the shortest amount of time. Typically this involves traversing some distance, but it can be any other task involving speed to reach a specific goal.

A race may be run continuously from start to finish or may be made of several segments called heats, stages or legs. A heat is usually run over the same course at different times. A stage is a shorter section of a much longer course or a time trial.

Early records of races are evident on pottery from ancient Greece, which depicted running men vying for first place. A chariot race is described in Homer's Iliad.

Racing (album)

Racing ~Onsoku~ is the nineteenth studio album by the Japanese band Loudness. It was released in 2004 in Japan. On April 6, 2005, the band released the English version of the album, the first entirely sung in English since 1991. An international edition was released on August 9, 2005, published by Drakkar, with a different track listing, a different cover and littled differences in the production of the solo parts. A special international release of the album contains as bonus tracks the entire Rockshocks album of self-covers from the 1980s.

Racing (disambiguation)

Racing is a competition of speed.

Racing may also refer to:

  • Racing (album), a 2004 heavy metal album.
  • Racing de Santander, a Spanish Primera División football club.
  • Racing Club de Ferrol, a Spanish Second Division football club.
  • Racing Club, an Argentinean First Division football club based in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires.
  • Racing Club de Montevideo, an Uruguayan First Division football club.
  • Koninklijke Racing Club Genk, a Belgian First Division football club.
  • Racing Club de Lens, a French First Division football club based in Lens.
  • Racing Club de Strasbourg, a French Second Division football club based in Strasbourg.
  • Racing Club de France, a former First Division French football club based in Paris now playing in lower divisions.
  • Racing 92, a French rugby union club based in the Paris region; formerly the rugby section of Racing Club de France.
  • Paris Basket Racing, a former French basketball club based in Paris and the former basketball section of Racing Club de France.
  • Racing Club Warwick F.C., an English football club based in Warwick.
  • Racing Football Club Union Luxembourg, a Luxembourgian First Division football club based in Luxembourg City.
  • Racing Club Haïtien, a Haitian First Division football club based in Port-au-Prince.
  • Cartoon Network Racing, a PlayStation 2 video game.
  • Racing Aces, a Sega CD video game.

Usage examples of "racing".

She paused a moment before laying her hand against the admittance plate, composing her face and trying to calm her racing heartbeat.

Bay came racing out of the adobe house and hugged Sloan as she stepped down from her horse.

Luken was surprised enough when the Animist leapt from his chair and went racing into the bar itself, but was even more surprised when, a moment later, there were shouts and screams and Alex, locked in struggle with another man, crashed down and through the grape arbor.

The populations of the attacked Rim worlds had been driven insane by the presence of the Terrors appalling heralds, but Corcoran had been right at the edge of the solar system, racing towards hyperspace and safety.

Driving along the quiet autobahn Philip saw in his rear-view mirror the blue Audi racing after him.

Ralph Bales and Stevie Flom walked briskly to a stolen black Trans Am with a sporty red racing stripe on the side.

Within heartbeats, it seemed, he was racing southeast, trailing a long banderole of dust.

The bathers reappeared on the grass-ridge, racing and flapping wet towels.

Within a bare five seconds of the blow that removed Sir John Bittle from the troubles of that evening the Saint was through the window and racing across the lawn, carrying Patricia Holm as he might have carried a child.

He walked Bonfire up and down the wooden loading ramp, getting him used to entering and leaving a van, which would be so much a part of his racing life.

It lifted up, drawing a funereal curtain across the sky and as Chubby gunned the motors and ran for the channel the first racing streamers of cloud spread across the sun.

Some delayed band of the Chud came racing from among the ruins--fifty or a hundred.

Finding it, the probe then reached out, racing through citywide, planetwide, and ultimately Commonwealthwide data hubs.

Standing there in the sunlight, with sage cloud shadows racing toward me, I knew, without resort to my clairvoyant powers, that I was probably looking upon that treasured landscape for the last time.

A village seven miles from Woodsite, calm in its half-deserted state, with its men all at business in New York, was cleaved, as it were, by the racing machines, while women and children ran and screamed to escape from the path of the monsters.