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English
Noun
short track (countable and uncountable, plural short tracks)
- (countable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see short, track.
- (iceskating) A short-track speedskating oval.
- (motor racing) A speedway oval of less than one mile in track circuit length.
- (uncountable, ice skating) A subdiscipline of speed skating, where skaters race around an ice rink, the size of an ice hockey rink; typically in mass start racing, against other skaters in heats.
- Hypernym: speed skating
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a subdiscipline of speed skating