Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sports arena with a banked oval track for bicycle and motorcycle racing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A race-course for bicycles and the like.
- n. A hollow cone (or frustum of a cone) of thin boards or slats, within which a bicycle-rider exhibits feats of riding and dynamic support of the weight of wheel and rider. The centrifugal acceleration generated by rapid wheeling keeps the rider from falling even when the wheel is nearly horizontal as it runs. The resultant of the centrifugal and gravity reactions is normal to the inclined elements of the cone. When the cone is suspended in the air it is called an aërial velodrome.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a banked oval track for bicycle or motorcycle racing
Etymologies
- From French vélodrome, from vélo ("bicycle") + -drome, from Ancient Greek δρόμος (dromos, "a course, race course, road"). (Wiktionary)
- French vélodrome, blend of vélocipède, velocipede; see velocipede, and -drome, racecourse (from Latin -dromus; see -drome). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The new Indira Gandhi velodrome is fast, and officials listened to riders’ comments and turned down the air conditioning to allow for more optimum racing conditions.”
“The velodrome is the first major Olympic venue to be completed and is favourite to win with odds of 2/1 at William Hill.”
The Guardian: Stirling prize shortlist reflects new austerity in architecture
“Most people have never heard of one, or ever seen one, but a velodrome is a sight worth seeing.”
The Huffington Post: Maria Rodale: Organic Food at the Bicycle Races!
“This is why I think anyone riding a bike without brakes outside a velodrome is the epitome of imbecile.”
“The velodrome will be a community facility run by Lee Valley Leisure, so British Cycling won't be directly benefiting financially from it's use.”
“The velodrome is another venue to deliver huge carbon savings, says Mr Stubbs”
“The ride at the velodrome is the third of 16 "spokes" or rides on the 2010 wheel, with another spoke set for Sept. 12 in Hersey and Sept. 13 at the Penn State Cancer Center”
“His father later took him to the local velodrome, which is a specially-built banked cycling track.”
“Getting inside the velodrome was a life-threatening experience.”
“Thinkin' of you, 'cause "velodrome" seems like such a Victorian word though it's not, today I wrote this:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘velodrome’.
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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CycList
Anything related to cycling; no motorcycling, please.
frame, pedal, crank arm, top tube, down tube, seat tube, seat stay, chain stay, saddle, fork, hub, rim and 97 more...
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cycling terms
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Round and round she goes
Things to go around and things that go around.
mulberry bush, robin hood's barn, the rosie, the bend, the block a few t..., the corner, merry go round, roulette wheel, gyroscope, in circles, the world, the clock and 29 more...
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minneapolitan's Words
hissyfit, fussbudget, aghast, lament, trichinellosis, tranche, decadent, aspersion, pejorative, aniline, galoshes, accede and 200 more...
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I've no idea where I got this page full of words, but whatever it is, I want to find it again. May have duplicate words from other lists.
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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harveythechainsaw's Words
lickspittle, syllogism, redounds, boffo, maw, flibbertigibbet, elan, phalanx, plinth, wonk, janjaweed, madreporic and 142 more...
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gorgonglare's list
the best
zeppelin, ion, laconic, serendipity, cataract, saturnine, syzygy, cinnabar, bistro, lithium, paroxysm, scion and 694 more...
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words that are in vogue in my current lexical output.
i say these words a lot.
or i think about these words a lot.voguish, concordant, amble, moth, rollie, patois, viable, melancholy, dram, verdant, ruse, beautiful and 51 more...
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word set 3
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Words of the Day
Words of the day. :)
mucronate, fellah, glottochronology, chanticleer, pabulum, cynosure, purport, risible, privatdozent, catoptric, frazil, rusk and 30 more...
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