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singletrack

singletrack

2 6.3
A narrow path where only one person, bike or vehicle can pass at a time
  • noun
  • /ˈsɪŋɡlˌtræk/
translation icon : sendero estrecho
  • The organizers planned the event to include both roads and singletrack paths for a varied biking experience.
  • singletrack trail
  • ride singletrack
  • singletrack descent

Examples

  • There's singletrack in San Francisco—and it's legal and well marked.

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  • At the south end of the city, in the Excelsior, this 300+ acre park offers miles of high and dry singletrack, as well as some pretty cool views of the city.

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  • Pedal down the street about 50 yards until you see the singletrack heading into the park.

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  • The point is that I am trying to make a good uphill singletrack to the top of the popular downhill Flume Trail.

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  • Mount Sutro is the eucalyptus-filled hillside between Twin Peaks and UCSF, and it offers miles of varied singletrack to play on.

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  • This compact park, just five miles from BART, is a singletrack oasis filled with towering redwoods and trickling creeks.

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  • Yes, please—on a 31-mile stretch of singletrack that follows the Ouachita (Oh-Ah-Sha-Tah).

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  • Spending each day on miles of amazing singletrack, I have been putting many of my physical skills to the test—technical uphill, tight switchbacks, log and boulder hopping, and fast, loose downhills.

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  • The mountain bikers enjoyed racing along the narrow singletrack that wound through the forest.

  • After a long hike, we finally reached the exciting singletrack trail with views of the valley.

Synonyms

path
vssingletrack
969 1.0

A way or track that people and things move along for travel

is a very narrow route allowing only one person or vehicle at a time

How Complex

multicursal design
  • Specialized
8.2
singletrack
2 6.3

Surface Forms

singletrack singular
singletracks plural

Morphology

singletrack = single + track (transparent) = single + track

The noun sense denotes a narrow path allowing only single-file passage and is transparently the compound 'single' + 'track'.

Etymology

The word singletrack comes from the parts single 'one' and track 'path'. So a singletrack is a narrow path or trail where only one bike, car, or person can go at a time.