track event

1. 1.

   a footrace performed on a track (indoor or outdoor)

   Broaderfootrace

   Narrowerdashhurdlesmile

   Part oftrack meet

Questions about track event

What does track event mean?

track event means "a footrace performed on a track (indoor or outdoor)".

Is track event a common word?

track event 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.