单词 | road racing |
释义 | road racingn. The action, practice, or sport of racing on the road (originally on horseback); participation in a road race (road race n. 2). ΚΠ 1828 Sporting Mag. 22 235 Lord Scarborough..used to gallop down to Ware... His happiness was road-racing, as it is now turf-racing. 1891 A. J. Foster Ouse 136 Cyclists who go in for road-racing. 1926 E. Hemingway Sun also Rises iii. xix. 247 Bicycle road-racing was the only sport in the world, he said. Had I ever followed the Tour de France? 1994 Runner's World Feb. 95/1 We've highlighted 100 nonmarathon races... They represent the long and short, the hilly and flat and all that road racing has to offer. 2003 S. Hislop & S. Bakker Hizzy (2004) ix. 160 Road racing is about stamina, it's about..nursing the bike over extremely bumpy and taxing roads. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1828 |
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