different between speedway vs superspeedway

English

Wikivoyage

Etymology

From speed +? way.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi?dwe?/

Noun

speedway (countable and uncountable, plural speedways)

1. (uncountable) A form of motorcycle racing on flat (without camber) oval dirt tracks using motorcycles with neither brakes nor gears.
2. (uncountable) A form of bicycle racing on flat (non-banked) oval dirt tracks.
3. A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
   1. A positive-camber banked oval racing circuit, designed for high speed cornering, racing anywhere on the length of the track.
      1. A size of paved banked oval racetrack, smaller than superspeedways, but larger than a mile.
4. (chiefly US) A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.

Synonyms

• (motorcycle racing genre): motorcycle speedway
• (bicycle racing genre): cycle speedway, bicycle speedway
• (racing track): motor speedway, motospeedway

Derived terms

• superspeedway

Translations

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi?d?ei?/, [?s?pi?d?e?i?]

Noun

speedway

1. speedway

Declension

English

Etymology

super- +? speedway

Noun

superspeedway (plural superspeedways)

1. (motor racing) A motor speedway at least two miles in length

See also

• Oval track racing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia