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Sports & Fitness vocabulary · Competition & Scoring

Lane

Meaning in sports & fitness, with examples

nounCore term

In sports & fitness, lane means: A marked strip of a track or pool assigned to a competitor or used to separate movement.

In Turkish: kulvar

How it is used

Officials assign a lane; athletes check the lane number before starting.

Example sentences

  1. She checked her lane number before stepping onto the track.

    The number tells her which marked strip to use.

  2. The pool kept one lane open for slower swimmers.

    The division separates swimmers by their practice needs.

Common collocations

  • lane number
  • inside lane
  • track and fieldThe group of sports that includes running races, jumping and throwing events, held on a running track and the field inside it.
  • freestyleA swimming event in which any stroke may be used, in practice almost always front crawl; the word also names styles in wrestling, skiing and other sports.

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