racing
/ˈɹeɪsɪŋ/
racing noun: the sport of competing in races. Also the present participle and gerund of race.
Noun
racing (usually uncountable, plural racings)
- 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 […]1870, Delabere Pritchett Blaine, An encyclopaedia of rural sports, page 231
- 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.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 3
Also used as
racing is also the present participle and gerund of race.
racing meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
racing in Hindi
- रेसिंग
racing in Urdu
- ریسنگ
racing in Bengali
- রেসিং
racing in Telugu
- రేసింగ్
More languagesFewer languages
- racing in Malayalam
- റേസിംഗ്, റേസിങ്
- racing in Kannada
- ರೇಸಿಂಗ್
- racing in Punjabi
- ਰੇਸਿੰਗ
- racing in Gujarati
- રેસિંગ
- racing in Odia
- ରେସିଂ, ରେସିଙ୍ଗ୍, ରେସିଙ୍ଗ
- racing in Nepali
- रेसिङ
- racing in Indonesian
- balap
Examples of racing in a sentence
- Stock cars can't have all the modifications of other racing cars.
- A car racing in a circle may retain the same speed while continually changing its velocity.
- Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.
Forms of racing
| plural | racings |
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Origin of racing
By surface analysis, race + -ing.
Words formed from racing
- antiracing
- automobile racing
- auto racing
- banger racing
- bathtub racing
- bracket racing
- British racing green
- car racing
- dog racing
- drag boat racing
- drag racing
- drag-racing
- drag racing boat
- drag-racing boat
- fleet racing
- footracing
- formula racing
- greycing
- greyhound racing
- harness racing
- horse racing
- ice racing
- jump racing
- match racing
- motor racing
- motor-racing
- nonracing
- open-wheel racing
- pigeon racing
- preracing
- prototype racing
- racing bike
- racing briefs
- racing car
- racing-car
- racing certainty
- racing crab
- racing driver
- racing form
- racing green
- racing jack
- racinglike
- racing line
- racing pigeon
- racing prototype
- racing stripe
- racing thoughts
- road racing
- running and racing
- set pulses racing
- sledge racing
- slot racing
- street racing
- turtle racing
- wheelchair racing
- wok racing
- racingly
Phrases with racing
- racing off
- racing cars
- racing crabs
- racing forms
- racing jacks
- barrel racing
- racing greens
- racing drivers
- racing pigeons
- racing stripes
- drag racing boats
- racing prototypes
5 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with racing
2 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about racing
- What does racing mean?
- Racing means the sport of competing in races.
- What is racing in Hindi?
- Racing in Hindi is रेसिंग. See Racing meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is racing?
- Racing is a noun.
- How do you pronounce racing?
- Racing is pronounced /ˈɹeɪsɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of racing?
- The plural of racing is racings.
Words near racing in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: racing (page history and authors); racing (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racing (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racing (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racing (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racing (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racing (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racing (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racing (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racing (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racing (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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