racing
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
/ˈɹeɪsɪŋ/
Definition of racing
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable, usually)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.”
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noun
-
(uncountable, usually)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.”
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of race
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
By surface analysis, race + -ing.
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