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race walking

race walking is the alternative spelling of racewalking.

Meaning of racewalking

Noun

racewalking (uncountable)

  1. A sport in which people try to walk as fast as possible, subject to the constraint that at least one foot must be on the ground at all time (or else they would be running).
    Synonyms:
    speedwalking

Questions about race walking

What is race walking the alternative spelling of?
Race walking is the alternative spelling of racewalking.

Words near race walking in the dictionary

  1. race traitor
  2. race traitors
  3. race walk
  4. race walker
  5. race walkers
  6. race walking
  7. race walks
  8. race war
  9. race wars
  10. race-
  11. race-bait

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Adapted from Wiktionary: race walking (page history and authors); racewalking (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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