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View synonyms for cinder track

cinder track

noun

  1. a track covered with small cinders, for use in running races.


cinder track

noun

  1. a racetrack covered with fine cinders
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cinder track1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

That record was set on a cinder track, considered the best surface at the time.

From BBC

No human in history achieved the feat until May 6, 1954, when Roger Bannister, a British medical student, ran the distance in 3:59.4 on a cinder track in Oxford, England.

These were the first Olympics broadcast live using satellites and the last to be run on a cinder track; a bridge between older Olympics and the modern.

And the last to be run on a cinder track; a bridge between older Olympics and the modern.

Bank was dismissed a few days after for shouting out over the staid Palmer as Mills sprinted the final 80 yards on the cinder track, the last time that surface was used at the Olympics.

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