racing car

noun

1. a car used for racing, as a specially designed and modified car or stock car.

Word History and Origins

Origin of racing car¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Perhaps an easier analogy is that all racing cars are cars, but not all cars are built for racing.

From Washington Post

This is the Hyundai Veloster N ETCR, an electric racing car being developed for a new EV touring car category.

From Ars Technica

Just about everyone who straps into a racing car—regardless of discipline or series—does so wearing layers of a synthetic fabric called Nomex.

From Ars Technica

She had previously been married to a racing-car driver who had been killed, leaving her with one child.

From The Daily Beast

It was all like putting a man in a racing car traveling flat out on the Salts in Bonneville, Utah.

From Project Gutenberg

We had done the Paris-Berlin run in my racing-car the summer before.

From Project Gutenberg

Suddenly a big black racing car swept from the line of traffic and approached the curb.

From Project Gutenberg

The street-car conductor drove the little machine as if it had been a racing car.

From Project Gutenberg

With a leonine roar and a succeeding clatter of empty cylinders, an immense racing-car stopped at the gate below.

From Project Gutenberg