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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Race \Race\, verb (used without an object) [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.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Racing \Ra"cing\ (r[=a]"s[i^]ng), a. & n. from {Race}, verb (used with an object) & i.
{Racing crab} (Zo["o]l.), an ocypodian.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
racing
noun: the sport of engaging in contests of speed
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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