racing

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪsɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ

racing (countable and uncountable, plural racings)

1. The sport of competing in races.
   • 1870, Delabere Pritchett Blaine, An encyclopaedia of rural sports, page 231:

     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 […]

   • 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:

     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.

• → Thai: ซิ่ง (sîng)

racing

1. present participle and gerund of race

• Crigan, Garčin, arcing, caring