1842 13 May 8/5 Ramsay and Royds..were drowned in the river about a fortnight since by the splitting open of a racing-gig in which they had been pleasuring.
1884 Feb. 344/1 A long racing-gig swept by us.
1998 8 Aug. 17/3 A sulky—a light, one-man, two-wheeled racing gig pulled by a horse.