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road racing
noun
- a competitive event of racing in automobiles, motorcycles, or bicycles over public roads or a twisting course simulating a public road, as opposed to a closed, banked track or a drag strip.
Word History and Origins
Origin of road racing1
Example Sentences
This is a bike for racing on gravel and adventuring in the backcountry, but it’s not the best rig for road racing or cyclocross.
Women’s pro races have for years navigated a tricky financial landscape, with a finicky sponsorship marketplace, and smaller—but growing—television audiences, when compared to men’s road racing.
Even if you do tune in to the Tour de France once a year, it’s unlikely you’ve heard of criterium, a spectator-friendly variation of road racing that takes place over multiple laps on a closed course.
Following the downfall of Lance Armstrong, road racing became almost synonymous with doping, sponsors walked away, and fans became disenchanted.
The former French road-racing star Laurent Jalabert conceded that, if Armstrong's titles are stripped, there must be a reason.
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