Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the sport of engaging in contests of speed;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Race \Race\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raced (r[=a]st); p. pr. & vb.
n. Racing (r[=a]"s[i^]ng).]
1. To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals
raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
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2. (Steam Mach.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine
or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the
action of a heavy sea.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Racing \Ra"cing\ (r[=a]"s[i^]ng),
a. & n. from Race, v. t. & i.
[1913 Webster]
Racing crab (Zool.), an ocypodian.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
racing
n 1: the sport of engaging in contests of speed
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "racing":
affluent, automobile racing, confluent, coursing, decurrent,
defluent, diffluent, dog racing, flowing, fluent, fluxional,
fluxive, gulfy, gushing, horse racing, mazy, meandering, pouring,
profluent, running, rushing, serpentine, sluggish, streaming,
surging, surgy, the turf, tidal, track, track sports, vortical