motoring

English

Noun

motoring (usually uncountable, plural motorings)

1. The act of operating a motorized vehicle; especially, driving a car (motorcar).

   Hyponym: cruising

   • c. 1910, George Bernard Shaw, letter to Beatrice

     The afternoon was horrible; but when we struck the sea at Exmouth, and the coast, familiar to me through my Torquay motorings, became lovely in the evening. I revived & was quite jolly when I arrived.

Related terms

• motordom
• motor vehicle
• nonmotoring

Verb

motoring

1. present participle and gerund of motor

Translations

car driving

• Catalan: automobilisme m
• Finnish: autoilu (fi)
• French: automobilisme (fr) m
• Portuguese: automobilismo (pt) m
• Spanish: automovilismo (es) m
• Swedish: bilism (sv) c