racing

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The sport of competing in races.

   Chariot racings are probably, however, those in which the horse first distinguished himself as a courser, and we believe our earliest notices on the subject point to those of Persia, which were practised at the sacrifices made to the sun […]

2. 2
   noun

   the sport of engaging in contests of speed

3. 3
   verb

   present participle and gerund of race

Etymology

By surface analysis, race + -ing.