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means A lightweight running shoe fitted with metal spikes on the sole, designed to grip the track and give sprinters and distance runners extra traction.

from A plain compound of "track" and "shoe." "Track" comes through Old French "trac" (a trail or footprint), with roots possibly in a Germanic word for a path one treads; by the 19th century it named the marked running courses of athletics. "Shoe" is much older, descending from Old English "scoh," a cousin of German "Schuh." Put together, the term simply means the shoe you wear on the track — though the spikes that make it lethal are a later athletic refinement, not part of the words themselves.