racecourse

From race +‎ course.

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racecourse (plural racecourses)

1. A course over which races are run.
   • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 393:

     At one point they made a racecourse around the Sepulchre and some, almost in a state of nudity, danced about with frantic gestures, yelling and screaming as if possessed,

2. (British, Australia) A racetrack where horse races are run.
   • 1964 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 387:

     By Savernake the train was 4½min early; we then had the thrill of sweeping through Newbury at 95 m.p.h.—and one wonders if any of the punters on the neighbouring racecourse had any eyes for our flying cavalcade as we swept by, for it was a race day—[...].