Short Track

Short track is a phrase with several meanings:

  • Short track motor racing, motor racing conducted on a track less than one mile in length
  • Short track speed skating, a form of competitive ice skating similar to speed skating

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or track:

    “... though it is by no means requisite that the American women should emulate the men in the pursuit of the whale, the felling of the forest, or the shooting of wild turkeys, they might, with advantage, be taught in early youth to excel in the race, to hit a mark, to swim, and in short to use every exercise which could impart vigor to their frames and independence to their minds.”
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)

    “What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)