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karting

karting

2 3.6
A sport where people race small open four-wheeled vehicles on a track
  • noun
  • /ˈkɑrtɪŋ/
: karting
  • Once again, the Challenge of the Americas will award three tickets to the Rotax Grand Finals, the Olympics of karting.
  • go-karting
  • Karting championship
  • karting track

And but this gives young women an opportunity to get into karting, to learn the sport, work their way up into the W Series.

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Examples

  • The Challenge of the Americas will close out once again at the challenging CalSpeed Karting circuit.

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  • And but this gives young women an opportunity to get into karting, to learn the sport, work their way up into the W Series.

  • Cunningham recently took up go-karting and qualified as an alternate for the 2011 Red Bull Kart Fight at the PRI expo.

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  • A big fan of the Izod IndyCar Series as well as other forms of motor racing, I have a couple of local karting titles and have attended both the Jim Russell and Derek Daly racing schools.

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  • Many young people start their racing careers in karting before moving on to professional motorsports.

  • The track was crowded with families enjoying a day of karting in the sunshine.

  • After taking classes on the weekend, she became passionate about karting and entered her first race.

Synonyms

racing
vskarting
243 1.0

A sport where people try to be the fastest to reach a finish line

is the specific motorized track activity using small open four wheeled vehicles
motorsport
vskarting
7 3.1

Sport of racing cars or motorcycles

focuses on small open four wheeled vehicles on a track

Surface Forms

karting singular
kartings plural

Morphology

karting = kart (transparent) = kart + ing

The word is a straightforward -ing nominalization referring to the activity of kart racing.

Etymology

The word karting comes from kart, a short form of the familiar word cart, which means a 'small wheeled vehicle'. So karting is the sport of racing little open carts or go-karts on a track.