track

Noun

• the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track

• any road or path affording passage especially a rough one

• a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll

• a groove on a phonograph recording

• (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data

• an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground

• a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
  • he played the first cut on the cd
    
  • the title track of the album
    

• a course over which races are run

• a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels

• evidence pointing to a possible solution
  • the police are following a promising lead
    
  • the trail led straight to the perpetrator
    

• a line or route along which something travels or moves
  • the hurricane demolished houses in its path
    
  • the track of an animal
    
  • the course of the river
    

Verb

• make tracks upon

• travel across or pass over
  • The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day
    

• go after with the intent to catch
  • The policeman chased the mugger down the alley
    
  • the dog chased the rabbit
    

• observe or plot the moving path of something
  • track a missile
    

• carry on the feet and deposit
  • track mud into the house
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  running , cart track , cartroad , rail , rails , runway , data track , caterpillar track , caterpillar tread , cut , racetrack , racecourse , raceway , lead , trail , path , course , traverse , cover , cross , pass over , get over , get across , cut through , cut across , chase , chase after , tail , tag , give