racer

/ˈreɪsər/

/ˈreɪsə/

Other forms: racers

Definitions of racer

1. noun

   someone who drives racing cars at high speeds
   synonyms: automobile driver, race driver

   examples:

   Berna Eli Oldfield

   United States race driver who was the first to drive faster than a mile a minute (1878-1946)

   types:

   finisher

   a racing driver who finishes a race

   type of:

   driver

   the operator of a motor vehicle
2. noun

   a fast car that competes in races
   synonyms: race car, racing car

   types:

   finisher

   a race car that finishes a race

   stock car

   a racing car with the basic chassis of a commercially available car

   type of:

   auto, automobile, car, machine, motorcar

   a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
3. noun

   an animal that races
   types:

   greyhound

   a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog

   steeplechaser

   a horse trained to run in steeplechases

   finisher

   an animal that wins in a contest of speed

   Italian greyhound

   a toy dog developed from the greyhound

   whippet

   small slender dog of greyhound type developed in England

   type of:

   animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna

   a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
4. noun

   slender fast-moving North American snakes
   types:

   Coluber constrictor, black racer, blacksnake

   blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet

   Coluber hippocrepis, horseshoe whipsnake

   slender fast-moving Eurasian snake

   Coluber constrictor flaviventris, blue racer

   bluish-green blacksnake found from Ohio to Texas

   type of:

   colubrid, colubrid snake

   mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes