running track

collocation in English

meaningsofrunningandtrack

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running
adjective[after noun]
uk
/ˈrʌn.ɪŋ/us
/ˈrʌn.ɪŋ/
happening on a particular number of ...
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track
noun
uk
/træk/us
/træk/
the pair of long metal bars fixed on the ground at an equal distance from each other, along which ...
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(Definition ofrunningandtrackfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is not on therunningtrack, and not within therunningtrack, but quite outside and away from it.
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We should have in mind a full indoorrunningtrack.
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Arunningtrackis apparently no longer contemplated.
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This is a very small percentage of therunningtrack.
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When sequestered at therunningtrackor sports club, gambling posed less of a threat to the sensibilities of those in power.
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Arunningtrackalso adds considerably to the cost of a football ground.
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A transfer of capital is made and therunningtrackis given to the son.
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It has football pitches, tennis courts, an open air bathing place and arunningtrack.
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Arunningtracksurrounds the field.
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There is also arunningtrack.
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The stadium also has arunningtrack.
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The suspendedrunningtrackstill survives.
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They went to the wrong ground—therunningtrack—but the police directed them to the right ground.
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Some nations are so small that they do not even have arunningtrackor a football pitch.
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There was no retractible seating or permanentrunningtrack, so what did he think we were talking about?
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That can be done only by encouragement, through achieving long-life ambitions such as that to provide arunningtrack.
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It is no use putting down arunningtrackin a village and hoping that the lads will use it.
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They resemble men on therunningtrackwho are sometimes well behind and look as though they are in front.
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The games will he based around a £90 million stadium, with arunningtrack, built on an earth infill.
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The bottom tier of seats would have been retracted and arunningtrackinserted above the pitch.
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The main field has arunningtrackaround it.
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The original grass field andrunningtrackwere removed.
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It was originally built as arunningtrackin 1931.
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The gallery doubled as a 1/20th mirunningtrack.
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Therunningtrackwas originally made of cinder.
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