kart
/kɑːt
/noun
A small unsprung motor-racing vehicle typically having four wheels and consisting of a tubular frame with a rear-mounted engine.It covers, and/or provides links to, virtually every type of racing, from bikes to karts to Indy cars, at every level in every country....
- When his father found an abandoned moped half-submerged in a nearby lake, retrieved the engine and then rebuilt and fitted it into the pedal kart, Michael Schumacher had his first engine to play with.
- Brandon was a late bloomer in motorsport, starting in karts in his late teens.
Derivatives
karting
/ noun ...- ‘It's a relief to be driving the car again,’ said Fellows, who has been driving a go kart at an indoor karting facility near his home as part of his therapy.
- The programme of events will include rallying, karting, off-road events, hill climbs, trials, autotests and visits to motorsport centres.
- Countless championships in UK karting make it practically impossible to single out the best driver… but not for much longer.
Origin
1950s: shortening of go-kart.
Rhymes
- red-billed gull
- red-billed hornbill
- red-billed leiothrix
- red-billed weaver
- red bine
- red birch
- red-bird
- red-blanket
- red-blind
- red-blindness
- red-blond
- red-blonde
- red-blood
- red blood cell
- red blood corpuscle
- red-blooded
- red-bloodedness
- red board
- red body
- red bog
- red bole
- redbone
- red book
- Red Book of Hergest
- red bottle-brush