as in canal
an open man-made passageway for water
fell into the racecourse for an abandoned water mill
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Recent Examples of racecourse
Greek sings the lyrics in between shots of the racecourse and between footage of cars colliding into each other.
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Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2025
This can only be accomplished with a network of wireless video transmitters along each racecourse, relaying live footage back to a production hub.
—Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
Riders are then propelled uphill through an identical side-by-side racecourse of enclosed and open tubes and 180-degree high-bank turns before hitting a final straightaway drop to the finish line pool below.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
The royal couple arrived at Royal Ascot on June 18 in the traditional procession across the racecourse, marking 200 years since the pageantry was introduced by King George IV in 1825.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 17 June 2025
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Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2025
This can only be accomplished with a network of wireless video transmitters along each racecourse, relaying live footage back to a production hub.
—Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
Riders are then propelled uphill through an identical side-by-side racecourse of enclosed and open tubes and 180-degree high-bank turns before hitting a final straightaway drop to the finish line pool below.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
The royal couple arrived at Royal Ascot on June 18 in the traditional procession across the racecourse, marking 200 years since the pageantry was introduced by King George IV in 1825.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for racecourse
Noun
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The Polish tourist posted a recent video of herself walking down steps into a canal.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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The canal connected increasingly specialized regions in the early US, explains historian Roger Ransom.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Completed eight years later, the canal stretched some 363 miles (584 kilometers), with 18 aqueducts and 83 locks to compensate for elevation changes en route.—
Matthew Smith,
The Conversation,
20 Oct. 2025
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For millennia, qanats—ingenious underground aqueducts—balanced survival with scarcity across the central plateau of Iran.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Racecourse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racecourse. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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