racing form

noun

: an information sheet giving details of past performance (as for racehorses) for use by bettors

Examples of racing form in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Retirees study racing forms beside construction workers still in boots. — CBS News, 13 May 2026

The racing form, ostensibly to inform bettors, looks like a spreadsheet strewn with figures, arcana and formatting designed specifically to be impenetrable. — Neil Greenberg, New York Times, 1 May 2026

Procopio worked for two years fixing up a red, white and blue 1980 Honda XR 500 to get it in racing form. — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 13 Nov. 2021

Saratoga fills with families, along with those who anchor hotel lobbies with heads bowed, pens stowed behind ears, memorizing the racing form. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2021

The majority, however, are white supremacists, who also believe that races form a normative hierarchy with whiteness at the top. — The Economist, 14 Aug. 2019

But female competitors who become pregnant or give birth are not offered a deferral and can obtain a refund only if the race occurs within 15 days of giving birth, after which women are considered to have returned to race form. — The Economist, 28 June 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1910, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for racing form

• chloroform
• coliform
• cribriform
• cruciform
• filiform
• fusiform
• isoform
• microform
• multiform
• outperform
• piriform
• plexiform