keirin

English

Etymology

From Japanese 競輪 (keirin, “racing cycles”).

Noun

keirin (countable and uncountable, plural keirins)

  1. (cycle racing) A form of track cycling originating in Japan, where riders must initially race behind a motorised pace-setter, the derny.
    • 2011, Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans, Historical Dictionary of Cycling, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 113:
      The keirin is one of the few track cycling events not originating in the West, having been developed in Japan. […] Keirin is extrememly popular in Japan, in particular because of gambling on the races.
    • 2016, Glen Norcliffe, Critical Geographies of Cycling: History, Political Economy and Culture‎, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Japan, however, has developed the distinctive cycling subculture of Keirin racing. Launched in Japanese velodromes in 1948 as a state regulated system designed to cream-off a percentage of stake money to support Japan's newly reconstituted bicycle industry […]

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Noun

keirin m (plural keirins)

  1. (cycling) keirin
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