Other forms: racers
A racer is somebody or something built to go fast in competition. A road racer, a racer's bike, a young racer.
It covers the person and the machine alike — a racer can be a cyclist, a driver or the bicycle they ride. In cycling, racer is the everyday British word for a lightweight drop-handlebar bike. The racer is also a fast-moving snake found across the Americas, which is a genuine zoological name rather than a nickname. Note racing; and racehorse.
1nounracerSomebody or something built to go fast in competition.
“The racers lined up on their bikes, waiting for the starting gun.”
2nounlightweightA lightweight racing bicycle, in British use.
“He saved up all summer for a shiny new racer with drop handlebars.”
racer is a competitor or fast machine.
Old English
rǣs
Middle English
race
English
race
English, today
racer
From race + -er. race comes from Middle English race, from Old English rǣs. From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European h₁reh₁s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs "a strong current"; whence German Low German Raas (“mad rush, rage, fury”), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian - and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA