camel racing
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- noun
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carrera de camellos
- Participants train their camels extensively for the competitive world of camel racing.
- camel racing in the UAE
- modern camel racing
- development of camel racing
Examples
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The media frequently inform UAE citizens that it is the sheikhs' vision, financial support, and attachment to camel heritage that have been behind the development of modern camel racing.
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Training is critical for winning, and good trainers achieve both fame and fortune in the camel-racing world of oil-rich Arabia.
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The sport of camel racing in the UAE is recent and has grown at a fast pace.
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Television, especially, has had a significant role in the revival and evolution of camel racing in the UAE.
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Unlike horse racing elsewhere, gambling is not allowed in camel racing or horse racing in the Gulf, as it constitutes a violation of Islamic religious principles.
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Camel culture provides strong links to the historical past of the UAE, swept away by rapid modernization but revived and celebrated in camel racing.
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The celebration of camel racing as an annual invented tradition is meant, among other things, to forge these expressive links and produce a unifying social memory among contemporary Emiratis.
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The sport of camel racing attracts thousands of spectators at events throughout the Middle East.
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In many countries, camel racing has a long history and is celebrated at various festivals.
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the sport of racing camels' is directly and transparently composed from 'camel' (the animal) and 'racing' (a speed contest); there is no idiomatic shift or metaphorical extension. This noun–noun composition describing a type of sport is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Camel racing comes from old desert traditions where people raced camels to see which animal was fastest, often using very light riders to make the camels run quicker. That's why camel racing today means 'the sport of racing camels' and is still a popular event in some Middle Eastern countries.