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Racing 92
Racing 92, also Racing Métro 92, is a Top 14 rugby union club in Nanterre, Paris, formed in 2001 from the merger of Racing Club de France (1882) and US Métro; six-time French champions (last 2016), twice European runners-up.
Racing bicycle
A racing bicycle, or racing bike, is a lightweight bicycle with drop handlebars and narrow high-pressure tires, designed for speed on paved roads and shaped by road racing rules.
Racing Bulls
Racing Bulls (Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team), Red Bull's Faenza-based sister F1 team, formerly Minardi, Toro Rosso, AlphaTauri, and RB; two wins (Vettel 2008, Gasly 2020); 2026 drivers Lawson and Lindblad.
Racing Bulls VCARB 02
The Racing Bulls VCARB 02 is a Formula One car raced by Visa Cash App Racing Bulls in the 2025 season, with drivers Yuki Tsunoda and Isack Hadjar.
Racing Bulls VCARB 03
The Racing Bulls VCARB 03 is a Formula One car built by Visa Cash App Racing Bulls for the 2026 season, powered by the first Red Bull Ford engine.
Racing Club de Avellaneda
Racing Club de Avellaneda, also known as Racing Club, is an Argentine sports club founded in 1903, nicknamed La Academia and one of the five grandes of Argentine football.
Racing colours
Racing colors, also known as national racing colors, are standardized liveries assigned country by country that identified a car's entrant in international motor racing until sponsorship liveries were allowed in 1968.
Racing de Santander
Racing de Santander (Real Racing Club de Santander, S.A.D.), Spanish football club founded 23 February 1913 in Santander, Cantabria; La Liga founding member, 1931 runner-up, plays at El Sardinero, won the 2025-26 Segunda División and returned to Primera after 14 years.
Racing flags
Racing flags, also known as auto racing flags, are the colored flags waved by trackside marshals in motorsport to signal race starts, finishes, hazards, and penalties.
Racing Mount Pleasant
Racing Mount Pleasant (formerly Kingfisher) is a seven-piece indie rock, chamber pop band from Ann Arbor, Michigan, formed at the University of Michigan in 2019; its self-titled 2025 album on R&R followed Grip Your Fist, I'm Heaven Bound (2022).
Racing Point F1 Team
Racing Point F1 Team, the Silverstone Formula 1 constructor (2019–2020, BWT Racing Point), formed from Lawrence Stroll's £90m Force India buyout; its Mercedes-inspired RP20 drew a €400,000 fine and 15-point deduction, then became Aston Martin in 2021.
Racing Point Force India
Racing Point Force India F1 Team was the Silverstone F1 team's name for the second half of 2018 after Lawrence Stroll's consortium bought Force India out of administration; as a new entry it scored 52 points, finishing 7th, before becoming Racing Point in 2019.
Racing silks
Racing silks, called colors in Britain and Australia, are the registered jacket, sleeve, and cap designs jockeys wear to identify each horse's owner in a race.
Racing Stripes
Racing Stripes is a 2005 American family sports comedy directed by Frederik Du Chau about a zebra raised on a Kentucky farm who trains to race against horses.
Racing thoughts
Racing thoughts (tachyphrenia) is a symptom of abnormally fast, uncontrollable thinking, first named in DSM-III 1980 mania criteria; also seen in depression, ADHD, anxiety, and insomnia.
Racinovi sredbi
Racinovi sredbi (Рацинови средби, Racin Meetings) is an annual international literary event held each June in Veles, North Macedonia, honoring poet Kočo Racin since 1963.
Racism
Racism: unequal treatment based on race, from individual prejudice to institutional and structural forms; no scientific basis for racial hierarchy; studied via five quantitative traditions and monitored by UN, UNESCO, and national surveys.
Racism against Native Americans in the United States
Racism against Native Americans in the United States: interpersonal, structural, and representational discrimination against Native peoples, including boarding schools, jurisdictional gaps, survey-documented discrimination, and stereotyping in sports and media.
Racism in Asia
Racism in Asia covers caste-based discrimination against Dalits in South Asia, ethnic nationalism such as the Rohingya expulsion, state denial of racism in CERD reports from 16 countries, and anti-Asian hostility during COVID-19.
Racism in Australia
Racism in Australia spans terra nullius, the White Australia policy (Immigration Restriction Act 1901 to Migration Act 1973), the Stolen Generations, the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and 1995 vilification provisions, and Scanlon survey findings on discrimination and social cohesion.
Racism in Europe
Racism in Europe: belief in group superiority or contempt based on race, colour, religion or origin, per ECRI's definition. Covers historical scientific racism, EU Racial Equality Directive, anti-racism action plan 2020-2025 and 2026-2030 strategy, FRA survey prevalence data, and equality data gaps.
Racism in Israel
Racism in Israel covers discrimination against Arab/Palestinian citizens, Ethiopian-Israelis, and Palestinians under occupation, documented by state audits, the ICJ's 2024 systemic-discrimination finding, and incident statistics.
Racism in Russia
Racism in Russia: racialization and discrimination against Central Asian migrants, Roma, Caucasus peoples, and Africans, rooted in Soviet-era ethnicity politics and intensified by post-2024 anti-migrant laws and hate violence.
Racism in South Africa
Racism in South Africa, rooted in colonial segregation and apartheid (1948–1994), persists in schools, labour markets, and wealth distribution despite the 1994 constitution, SAHRC complaints data, employment equity disputes, and xenophobia and US-refugee controversies.
Racism in the United Kingdom
Racism in the United Kingdom: prejudice and discrimination by race or ethnicity, shaped by postwar Commonwealth migration. Key facts: Race Relations Act 1965, Equality Act 2010, 98,799 race hate crimes (YE March 2024), Black people stopped and searched at 4.1 times the White rate.
Racism in the United States
Racism in the United States, also called systemic or structural racism, is the system of beliefs, laws, and institutional practices producing racial inequality, rooted in slavery and Jim Crow and measurable today in wealth, health, policing, and education gaps.
Rack (torture)
The rack, also known as the torture rack, is a wooden frame with rollers that stretched victims apart, and the best-known instrument of judicial torture in Europe.
Rack and pinion
A rack and pinion (rack & pinion) is a gear mechanism in which a rotating pinion meshes with a straight rack, converting rotary motion into linear motion or the reverse.
Rack railway
A rack railway, also called a cog railway, is a steep-grade railway where a toothed rack rail engaged by a gear gives traction and braking.
Rack unit
A rack unit (symbol U or RU) is the standard unit of vertical height for equipment in 19-inch racks, equal to 1.75 inches (44.45 mm), defined by the EIA-310 standard.