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means A dedicated track or ground laid out for horses (or sometimes other things, like humans or greyhounds) to race around, usually oval or circular, often with a grandstand for the people losing money.

from A straightforward compound of 'race' (from Old Norse 'rás,' meaning a running or rush, brought into English via Old English and Norse-influenced dialects) and 'course' (from Old French 'cours,' tracing back to Latin 'cursus,' a running or a route — same root that gives us 'current' and 'cursor'). Put them together and you get exactly what it says on the tin: the course upon which a race is run. The word's dullness is almost suspicious — no myth, no buried scandal, just two plain nouns shaking hands sometime in the 16th century as formal racing grounds began to be laid out in England.