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race·way (rāśwā́)

noun 

  1. A course or track for racing, especially harness racing.
  2. A tube that encloses and protects electric wires.
  3. See race2
race2 (rās)

[Middle English ras, from Old Norse rās, rush, running.]

noun 

  1. Sports
    1. A competition of speed, as in running or riding.
    2. races. A series of such competitions held at a specified time on a regular course: a fan of the dog races.
  2. An extended competition in which participants struggle like runners to be the winner: the presidential race.
  3. Steady or rapid onward movement: the race of time.
    1. A strong or swift current of water.
    2. The channel of such a current.
    3. An artificial channel built to transport water and use its energy. Also called raceway
  5. A groovelike part of a machine in which a moving part slides or rolls.
  6. See slipstream

verb: raced, rac·ing, rac·es. 

intransitive verb 

  1. Sports To compete in a contest of speed.
  2. To move rapidly or at top speed: We raced home. My heart was racing with fear.
  3. To run too rapidly due to decreased resistance or unnecessary provision of fuel: adjusted the idle to keep the engine from racing.

transitive verb 

  1. Sports
    1. To compete against in a race.
    2. To cause to compete in a race: She races horses for a living.
  2. To transport rapidly or at top speed; rush: raced the injured motorist to the hospital.
  3. To cause (an engine with the gears disengaged, for example) to run swiftly or too swiftly.