racetrack

racetrack [reys-trak] ExamplesWord Origin noun

1. a plot of ground, usually oval, laid out for horse racing.
2. the course for any race.

Origin of racetrack First recorded in 1855–60 Related Words for race-track arena Examples from the Web for race-track Historical Examples of race-track

Well, at that, the race-track game is no game for a married man, is it?

Old Man Curry

Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

The race-track annual had said Billy Garrison had followed the ponies since boyhood.

Garrison’s Finish

W. B. M. Ferguson

He would have done better to go on the race-track, as far as concerned a career.

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

He had been thinking all the time of his “pull” with the race-track magnates.

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

I’ll expose him as a race-track gambler, a fraud, a swindler!

Frank Merriwell’s Races

Burt L. Standish

British Dictionary definitions for race-track racetrack noun

1. a circuit or course, esp an oval one, used for motor racing, speedway, etc
2. Also called: racecourse mainly US and Canadian a long broad track, usually of grass, enclosed between rails, and with starting and finishing points marked upon it, over which horses are raced

Word Origin and History for race-track n.

1814, from race (n.1) + track (n.).