tracks 1 of 2

noun

plural of track
1
as in trails
a mark or series of marks left on a surface by something that has passed along it a muddy track across the kitchen floor

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2
as in paths
a rough course or way formed by or as if by repeated footsteps there was still a faint track through the underbrush that indicated where the path used to be

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3
as in routes
the direction along which something or someone moves I followed the track of the thief's eyes as he watched the woman put the money into her purse and walk away

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tracks

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verb

present tense third-person singular of track
1
as in chases
to go after or on the track of predators stealthily tracking their prey

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2
as in traverses
to make one's way through, across, or over once upon a time, millions of buffalo tracked the wide open plains

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Recent Examples of tracks
Noun
Will movie nights and electric go-kart tracks suffice to keep CWG’s buildings full if, as some predict, AI renders large numbers of office jobs redundant? — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026 In September, high tides and powerful wave activity from Hurricane Marie buffeted the San Clemente coastline, temporarily halting Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink service after more erosion and slope damage were spotted near the train tracks. — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 An evaluation of graduates from two of those tracks found 82% were employed within five to six months. — Christina Sass, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 That law established the Seaboard Air Line Railroad as a racial boundary — literally the other side of the tracks — with white residents living to the north and Black residents to the south. — Brian Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026 In September, Rockstar revealed the details of GTA VI’s 34-song soundtrack, featuring original tracks from Travis Scott, Yung Lean, and PinkPantheress, among others. — Alex Suskind, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2026 The door remains open for a very snowy winter, but there is also a legitimate bust scenario if storm tracks are less favorable or if storms repeatedly fail to line up with the cold air. — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 After nearly four decades in public education, scenes like these still stop me in my tracks. — Michael Poore Special To The Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026 That tracks here, but with a more down-to-earth take on glamour. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
As the name suggests, the reference combines a perpetual calendar that tracks leap years and varying month lengths without correction until the next century, and a rattrapante, or split-seconds, chronograph capable of timing two events at once. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2026 At Edward Jones, CIO Kevin Adams has moved part of managerial memory and follow-through into an AI system that tracks context across enterprise programs and committees. — Keith Ferrazzi, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 Their readings feed into an app that tracks focus, detects fatigue, and builds a long-term record of how those signals change over time. — New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2026 The State Water Resources Control Board tracks water affordability in California. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026 The Restore 3 has been the one to get for years, until Hatch recently released its Sleep Clock—a new take on the popular sunrise alarm clock that actually tracks your sleep quality without a screen or wearable. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2026 The alliance tracks these incidents, investigates them, and sometimes intercepts attacks. — Julianne Smith, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2026 Blow Yourself Up is a love story that tracks the evolution of the internet from toy to utility to hellscape, the core technological advance of our lifetime. — Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026 Related Stories The story takes place over four days in December and tracks four women spanning three generations. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tracks
  1. trails
  2. paths
  3. routes
  4. chases
  5. traverses
  6. traces
  7. footpaths
  8. ways
Noun
  • Reaching Gary Grabowske’s land requires grinding along rocky mountain trails and through gullies carved by flash floods.
    — Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Tickets start at $38 for admission to all three scare trails, with add-ons and upgrades available.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of trails
Noun
  • His view on cross-border storytelling was shared across the panel as multilingual and multicultural filmmaking opens more paths to audiences.
    — Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Amenities and experiences Not an amenity forward hotel per se, no gym, spa or restaurant, but the hotel does offer bikes to explore Stanley Park nearby or the paths that go by the waterfront.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of paths
Noun
  • Its aim is to make rail practical for shipments that are often moved by trucks because conventional freight trains are less flexible on shorter routes.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026
  • But Huang regards it as just another attractor in the landscape — albeit a potentially catastrophic one — that can be all too easily accessed by many different routes.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of routes
Verb
  • Mortgage interest rates are climbing faster than a squirrel scaling a tree after my dog chases it.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Be the man who chases, not the man who laughs with the group.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of chases
Verb
  • This fourth full-length from the London jazz quintet traverses Black diasporic sound traditions — grime, reggae, Afrobeat — mulling over the question of how music so joyous can be rooted in histories of pain.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Reliever optimizes availability After taking his head out of the cold tub, Blubaugh traverses the bowels of Daikin Park.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of traverses
Noun
  • The words cut sharply into the jumble of to-do lists, fantasies, snippets of possible writing, worry, and leftover traces of postpartum depression that constituted my mind in the early months of 1993.
    — Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
  • It is considered highly likely that gold jewelry purchased in Great Britain in the mid- to late 1980s contained traces of the ingots stolen from the Brink’s-Mat warehouse.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of traces
Noun
  • But this one swept through Bright Angel Canyon, the site of one of the few footpaths that lead up the Gran Canyon’s North Rim.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026
  • According to the National Park Service, the footpaths through the forested ridgetops of Pennsylvania are among the most popular.
    — Idra Novey, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
Definition of footpaths
Noun
  • The show is about the conglomeration of various immigrant groups and people taking advantage of one another in different ways in the Central Valley in California of that era.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026
  • In some ways, beauty is particularly poised to benefit from this shift.
    — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
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“Tracks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tracks. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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