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race course

race course is the alternative form of racecourse.

Meaning of racecourse

Noun

racecourse (plural racecourses)

  1. A course over which races are run.
    • At one point they made a racecourse around the Sepulchre and some, almost in a state of nudity, danced about with frantic gestures, yelling and screaming as if possessed,2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 393
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) A racetrack where horse races are run.
    • By Savernake the train was 4½min early; we then had the thrill of sweeping through Newbury at 95 m.p.h.—and one wonders if any of the punters on the neighbouring racecourse had any eyes for our flying cavalcade as we swept by, for it was a race day—[...].1964 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 387

Forms of race course

pluralrace courses

Questions about race course

What is race course the alternative form of?
Race course is the alternative form of racecourse.

Words near race course in the dictionary

  1. race cloth
  2. race cloths
  3. race communism
  4. race condition
  5. race conditions
  6. race course
  7. race cycling
  8. race day
  9. race days
  10. race detractor
  11. race detractors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: race course (page history and authors); racecourse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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