car racing
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- noun
- /kɑr ˈreɪsɪŋ/
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carrera de automóviles
- RR: I am still fond of car racing and practice as much as possible, but it remains a hobby, a passion.
- stock car racing
- Indy car racing
- car racing fans
And he'd brought these downstairs and set up his own little slot car racing room.
- And he'd brought these downstairs and set up his own little slot car racing room.
- They wanted to have a car which made noise because in these days car racing was very getting very popular.
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Racing got a bit of a face-lift in the United States when, during Prohibition, bootleggers and moonshiners unknowingly gave rise to the sport of stock car racing as they modified vehicles to carry heavier loads of illegal liquor and reach higher speeds to evade police officers.
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They're made for car racing.
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- This is stock car racing.
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I am looking for the illegal street car racing.
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-How did stock-car racing get its start?
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Where did stock-car racing come from?
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Another observation: I enjoy car racing and have found that few drivers last competitively past 40.
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Car racing games can be the most challenging and rewarding free arcade games to play.
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Stock car racing got its start during Prohibition with moonshine runners fleeing federal agents.
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NASCAR fans flock to see thrilling car racing events every weekend.
Synonyms
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A sport where people try to be the fastest to reach a finish line
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Sport of racing cars or motorcycles
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A sport where cars race on a track to see who is fastest
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A competition where cars race to cross the finish line first
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A competition where cars drive fast to reach the finish first
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A competition where fast cars race on a closed track
How Professional
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- Specialized
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- Jargon
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the sport or activity of racing automobiles' is directly compositional from 'car' (automobile) + 'racing' (the activity of competing by speed); a learner who knows both words can infer it easily. This noun-noun/compound pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows normal English compounding rules, making it transparently understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Car racing comes from early events when people put cars on a track to see which would go fastest. The picture of a car moving fast in a race helps explain why the phrase means 'the sport of cars racing each other'.