Pacing

Pacing may refer to:

  • Pacing (horse gait), a horse gait used in Standardbred horse races
  • Pacing, the even spreading out of athletes' strength in longer-distance track and field and swimming races, so that they don't burn themselves out
  • Pacing, a technique used in hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming
  • Cardiac pacing, regulation of the heart rate, generally in the sense of artificial methods:
    • Artificial pacemaker
    • Transcutaneous pacing, a means of making the heart beat during a medical emergency
  • PACing Pounding Against Concrete. A method of killing piglets whereby the piglet is picked up by the hind legs and slammed to the floor, causing head trauma.
  • Pacing (forestry), a means of estimating distances by counting the number of paces taken to walk a traverse

Famous quotes containing the word pacing:

    In the centre of his cage
    The pacing animal
    Surveys the jungle cove
    And slicks his slithering wiles
    To turn the venereal awl
    In the livid wound of love.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)