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racing

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noun/ˈɹeɪsɪŋ/
  1. 1

    The sport of competing in races.uncountableusually

    • Chariot racings are probably, however, those in which the horse first distinguished himself as a courser, and we believe our earliest notices on the subject point to those of Persia, which were practised at the sacrifices made to the sun […
    • The war years have not greatly altered running conditions on the East Coast route north of Edinburgh. It was never a racing ground, and the heavier loads and the possibility of indifferent coal have been only partially balanced by the incre
verb/ˈɹeɪsɪŋ/
  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of raceform-ofgerundparticiple

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