starting gate

1. 1.

   a movable barrier on the starting line of a race course

   Synonymsstarting stall

   Broaderbarrier

Questions about starting gate

What does starting gate mean?

starting gate means "a movable barrier on the starting line of a race course".

What is another word for starting gate?

Close synonyms include starting stall. 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 starting gate a common word?

starting gate 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.