Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The area near a track, especially a racetrack.

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  • adjective Located to the side of a track, especially a racetrack or set of railroad tracks.

Etymologies

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track +‎ -side

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Examples

  • As for the BTP; they looked the business and well able to deal with anything trackside or otherwise.

    British Transport Police « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • After a jump, the system spits out three crucial numbers on a trackside monitor: A jumper's horizontal velocity, his vertical velocity as he left the board and his angle of flight.

    Cracking the Long-Jump Code Scott Cacciola 2012

  • On Saturday at 3 p.m. in France, nearly a quarter of a million fans will stand trackside at the Circuit de la Sarthe, the iconic road course near the city of Le Mans, to witness the start of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and its thunderclap of engines.

    French Speed vs. German Muscle A.J. Baime 2011

  • Race Buddy, the animated mascot of TNT's NASCAR coverage, last week appeared in an online video sealing a manhole cover on the trackside hole of Digger, the animated mascot of Fox's NASCAR coverage.

    Dan Patrick's radio show can become made-for-TV 2009

  • It's hard to believe that these recent decisions will improve things for the trackside spectators and TV viewers, who should always be our number-one priority, (Lewis Hamilton).

    Archive 2009-03-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • On Saturday at 3 p.m. in France, nearly a quarter of a million fans will stand trackside at the Circuit de la Sarthe, the iconic road course near the city of Le Mans, to witness the start of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and its thunderclap of engines.

    French Speed vs. German Muscle A.J. Baime 2011

  • One of the horses in the second big race had to be put down, and whatever else it was trying to do -- establish Dustin Hoffman as a TV star, create a trackside milieu, give us a world full of compromised, colorful individuals, say something about the gambler's mentality -- 'Luck' made us feel awful for that poor horse and for the jockey that had to comfort the beast in its last seconds.

    'Luck': Dustin Hoffman And David Milch Debut Their New HBO Drama The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • One of the horses in the second big race had to be put down, and whatever else it was trying to do -- establish Dustin Hoffman as a TV star, create a trackside milieu, give us a world full of compromised, colorful individuals, say something about the gambler's mentality -- 'Luck' made us feel awful for that poor horse and for the jockey that had to comfort the beast in its last seconds.

    'Luck': Dustin Hoffman And David Milch Debut Their New HBO Drama The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • In the course of a few hapless days, Deley repeatedly stumbled over the names of star athletes "the Honourable Leo Usain Bolt" and his trackside commentators.

    Live television is 'a high-wire act with no safety net' 2011

  • The trackside shots of runners breaking from the stalls are dramatic and the technology shows its worth when a horse jogs past after a race, sending great flecks of foamy sweat flying out towards the viewer.

    3D show bidding to be sport's answer to Top Gear ready to exit stalls 2011

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