Tracks are the marks an animal leaves on soft ground. Deer tracks, follow the tracks, fresh tracks in the snow.
Tracking is a genuine skill: the shape, depth and spacing tell you the animal, its size and how fast it was moving. Snow, wet sand and mud take the clearest prints. The word also means railway lines — the train left the tracks — and, on an album, the individual songs. Note cover your tracks, meaning to hide evidence of what you did, and off the beaten track, meaning far from where everybody goes.
1nountracksThe marks an animal leaves on soft ground.
“There were fresh tracks all the way along the bank.”
2nounrailwayRailway lines.
“Somebody had left a gate open onto the tracks.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
tracks is marks or lines left behind.