RACING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does racing mean? 

• RACING (noun)
  The noun RACING has 1 sense:

1. the sport of engaging in contests of speed

  Familiarity information: RACING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RACING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sport of engaging in contests of speed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("racing" is a kind of...):

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Domain member category:

stretch (a straightaway section of a racetrack)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "racing"):

auto racing; car racing (the sport of racing automobiles)

boat racing (the sport of racing boats)

camel racing (the sport of racing camels)

greyhound racing (the sport of racing greyhounds)

horse racing (the sport of racing horses)

Derivation:

race (compete in a race)

 Context examples 

He paused and went on in a hollow voice:—"They are racing for the sunset. We may be too late. God's will be done!"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You! you horse-racing, cock-fighting ne’er-do-weel!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And still the Ghost foamed along, racing off the miles till I was certain she was making at least eleven knots.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Early that morning he was out himself to the front door, nervously racing through the many-sheeted newspaper.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I take a last drowning look at the page as I give it into her hand, and start off aloud at a racing pace while I have got it fresh.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient complain of butterflies in his/her stomach, or of racing or pounding of the heart in association with nervousness?

(NPI - Complain of Butterflies, Racing or Pounding Heart, NCI Thesaurus)

He was not a man given to wine, or cards, or racing, as some are, and he was not so very handsome; but he had a courage and a will of his own, if ever man had.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Silver Blaze,” said he, “is from the Isonomy stock, and holds as brilliant a record as his famous ancestor. He is now in his fifth year, and has brought in turn each of the prizes of the turf to Colonel Ross, his fortunate owner. Up to the time of the catastrophe he was the first favourite for the Wessex Cup, the betting being three to one on him. He has always, however, been a prime favourite with the racing public, and has never yet disappointed them, so that even at those odds enormous sums of money have been laid upon him. It is obvious, therefore, that there were many people who had the strongest interest in preventing Silver Blaze from being there at the fall of the flag next Tuesday.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He told her of horses which he had bought for a trifle and sold for incredible sums; of racing matches, in which his judgment had infallibly foretold the winner; of shooting parties, in which he had killed more birds (though without having one good shot) than all his companions together; and described to her some famous day's sport, with the fox-hounds, in which his foresight and skill in directing the dogs had repaired the mistakes of the most experienced huntsman, and in which the boldness of his riding, though it had never endangered his own life for a moment, had been constantly leading others into difficulties, which he calmly concluded had broken the necks of many.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)