Sports / A2

TRAK/træk/

A track is railway rails, or a path: a railway track, keep off the track, a running track, a forest track. Path is a walking cousin. Road is for cars. Truck is a vehicle. Do not write track when you mean truck, or tract.

Meaning

The metal rails a train runs on, or a path for walking or running.

Examples

• “Stand behind the line and wait off the track.”
• “Do not cross the track — use the footbridge.”
• “We followed a muddy track to the youth hostel.”

Good to know

a railway track / running track / forest track. Mix-up: truck.

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