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rac·er

 (rā′sər)
n.
1. One that takes part in a race.
2. A vehicle used in racing.
3. Any of various fast-moving colubrid snakes of several genera, especially Coluber.
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racer

(ˈreɪsə)
n
1. a person, animal, or machine that races
2. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a turntable used to traverse a heavy gun
3. (Animals) any of several long slender nonvenomous North American snakes of the colubrid genus Coluber and related genera, such as C. lateralis (striped racer)
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rac•er

(ˈreɪ sər)

n.
1. a person, animal, or thing that races or takes part in a race.
2. anything having great speed.
3. any of several slender, active snakes of the genera Coluber and Masticophis.
[1640–50]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.racer - someone who drives racing cars at high speedsracer - someone who drives racing cars at high speeds
automobile driver, race driver
finisher - a racing driver who finishes a race
driver - the operator of a motor vehicle
2.racer - a fast car that competes in racesracer - a fast car that competes in races  
race car, racing car
auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine - a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work"
cockpit - seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car
finisher - a race car that finishes a race
stock car - a racing car with the basic chassis of a commercially available car
3.racer - an animal that races
animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
greyhound - a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog
steeplechaser - a horse trained to run in steeplechases
finisher - an animal that wins in a contest of speed
4.racer - slender fast-moving North American snakes
colubrid, colubrid snake - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
Coluber, genus Coluber - racers
black racer, Coluber constrictor, blacksnake - blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet
Coluber hippocrepis, horseshoe whipsnake - slender fast-moving Eurasian snake
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racer

noun competitor, runner, contender, sprinter a former champion powerboat racer
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Translations
závodníkkolozávodní vůz
væddeløbsdeltager
kilpa-ajaja
trkač
versenygép
kappakstursbíll
レーサー
경주자
pretekárske auto/bicykel
kapplöpningsdeltagare
ผู้เข้าร่วมการแข่งขัน
vận động viên đua

racer

[ˈreɪsəʳ] N (= runner) → corredor(a) m/f; (= horse) → caballo m de carreras; (= car) → coche m de carreras; (= bike) → bicicleta f de carreras
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

racer

[ˈreɪsər] n (= bike) → vélo m de courserace relations npl → relations fpl interracialesrace riot n → émeute f raciale
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

racer

n → Rennfahrer(in) m(f); (= car) → Rennwagen m; (= bicycle) → Rennrad nt; (= yacht) → Rennjacht f; (= horse) → Rennpferd nt
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race1

(reis) noun
a competition to find who or which is the fastest. a horse race.
verb
1. to (cause to) run in a race. I'm racing my horse on Saturday; The horse is racing against five others.
2. to have a competition with (someone) to find out who is the fastest. I'll race you to that tree.
3. to go etc quickly. He raced along the road on his bike.
ˈracer noun
a car, bicycle etc built for competitive racing.
ˈracecourse noun
(a place with) a course over which horse races are run.
ˈracehorse noun
a horse bred and used for racing.
ˈracetrack noun
(a place with) a course over which races are run by cars, dogs, athletes etc.
ˈracing-car noun
a car specially designed and built for racing.
a race against time
a desperate attempt to do something before a certain time.
the races
a meeting for horse-racing.
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racer

→ مُتسَابِق závodník væddeløbsdeltager Rennfahrer δρομέας corredor kilpa-ajaja coureur trkač automobile da corsa レーサー 경주자 racer racer biegacz corredor гонщик kapplöpningsdeltagare ผู้เข้าร่วมการแข่งขัน yarışçı vận động viên đua 比赛者
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Like other men in whom sentiments and ideas are of equal strength, whose souls are noble and their brains well balanced, he was the defender of his wife before the tribunal of his own judgment; he told himself that nature doomed her to a disappointed life through his fault; HIS; she was like a thoroughbred English horse, a racer harnessed to a cart full of stones; she it was who suffered; and he blamed himself.
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