race horse

Questions about race horse

What does race horse mean?

race horse means "a horse bred for racing".

What is another word for race horse?

Close synonyms include racehorse, bangtail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is race horse a common word?

race horse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.