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speedway

speedway

29 4.9
A wide track where cars and motorcycles race very fast
  • noun
  • /ˈspiːdweɪ/
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  • Go to Big Bear Speedway and Ropes Course.

Examples

  • The NASCAR Nationwide Series will head to Miami-Homestead Speedway for the series' finale.

    Blog text (10)
  • Up next Sunday, the teams hit Dover International Speedway for the AAA 400.

    Blog text (16)
  • Jim books down the speedway, heads east, away from the beach

    Fiction book (1995)
  • We drove up to Speedway and entered the stream of traffic.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • The other track is Kentucky Speedway, which was added to the Cup schedule just last year.

    Blog text (16)
  • Tickets are still available by contacting the Texas Motor Speedway ticket office.

    Blog text (14)
  • We've been talking about what happened at Rome Motor Speedway last night.

  • Thanks for coming out to the Cranston Motor Speedway.

  • There's a crowd of nearly 200,000 cars here at the Los Angeles International Speedway.

  • The cars raced around the speedway at incredible speeds during the championship event.

Synonyms

racetrack
vsspeedway
49 2.3

A track where cars or horses race

is specialized for very high speed automobile or motorcycle competition
circuit
vsspeedway
23 4.2

A track where cars or bikes race

is specifically a place designed for high speed vehicle racing rather than the action
raceway
vsspeedway
7 4.3

A track where cars or horses race

is focused on very high speed events and includes motorcycles as well as cars
dirt track
vsspeedway
4 3.7

A racing track for cars or motorcycles with a surface of packed earth rather than pavement

is designed for high speed racing on wide roads or paved surfaces
racecourse
vsspeedway
  • UK
4 2.9

A place where horse races take place

is meant for high speed vehicle races rather than horse events
racing circuit
vsspeedway
1 3.9

A track for car races with laps and many turns

is used for very high speed events on a wide road not lap tracks
motordrome
vsspeedway
  • Archaic
9.3

An oval track with steep sides for motorcycle or car racing

is broader in shape and not limited to circular steeply banked tracks

How Fast

superhighway
5 3.5
speedway
29 4.9
racetrack
49 2.3
track
310 1.6
street
1.0

Surface Forms

speedway singular
speedways plural

Morphology

speedway = speed + way (transparent) = speed + way

The compound clearly denotes a 'way' (road) for 'speed', so learners can derive 'racetrack' from 'speed' + 'way'.

Etymology

Speedway is made of speed and way; speed means 'fast' and way means 'road' or 'path'. So a speedway is literally a 'road for fast cars', which is why it means a racetrack or wide road for high-speed racing.