running track

English

A running track in Oxford, England, named after Sir Roger Bannister, who broke the four-minute mile barrier here.

running track (plural running tracks)

(athletics) a track marked with several lanes, which is used for competitive running events.
Synonym: athletics track
(rail transport) A line on which trains can run, as opposed to a siding.
Synonym: running line
- 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
  There is a broad-gauge transfer shed, lengths of running track with reconstructed stations, and a bit of Brunel's ill-fated atmospheric railway.

track for running events