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Racing vs Pacing - What's the difference?

racing | pacing |

As nouns the difference between racing and pacing

is that racing is the sport of competing in races while pacing is the act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.

As verbs the difference between racing and pacing

is that racing is present participle of lang=en while pacing is present participle of lang=en.

racing

English

(wikipedia racing)

Noun

  • The sport of competing in races.
  • * 1870 , Delabere Pritchett Blaine, An encyclopaedia of rural sports (page 231)
    • 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

    Derived terms

    * auto racing * car racing * automobile racing * motor racing * horse racing * drag racing * street racing

    Verb

    (head)

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    pacing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • We have repeatedly referred to the usefulness of steps, lines, ticks, clocks, routines, pacings , etc. - scales, measures, series, patterns, disposed in a fixed and regular and conventional space-time.

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