▪ I. kart
(kɑːt)
Short for go-kart. Hence ˈkarting vbl. n., the sport of driving or racing a kart.
| 1959 Motor 9 Sept. 111/1 The whole affair may well seem reprehensible to those who feel that an injustice has been wrought on the children or that karting is too juvenile for adults, but after trying a kart, although one must admit that they are a joke, there is no doubt that they are one of the very best jokes to come out of the U.S.A. since Thurber's dogs. After 10 minutes' karting the cynic is invariably asking where he can get one. 1961 Sunday Express 1 Jan. 15/3 ‘Karting clothes’ the newest fad. 1964 K. Wheeler Sport 123 The newest motor sport is Karting. In the late 1950s the first little midget cars were seen on the tracks... Now karting is much faster, and an officially recognised sport with its own trophies and its own champions... A kart can cost as little as {pstlg}80. 1968 Times 2 Aug. 13/2 Her tiny 100 c.c. machine is capable of 80 m.p.h. She has been driving since she was 13, the minimum age for kart racing in this country. |
▪ II. kart
obs. form of cart n.