racing
/ˈɹeɪsɪŋ/noun, verb
racing is a noun meaning “The sport of competing in races” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-C-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears 32 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of racing is racings.
What does racing mean?
noun
- 1
The sport of competing in races.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of race
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce racing?
- /ˈɹeɪsɪŋ/
Racing has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-racing.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of racing
- racings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is racing?
Racing appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,992nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Racing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the sport of competing in races:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does racing come from?
By surface analysis, race + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).