Track Explained
Track or Tracks may refer to:
Routes or imprints
- Ancient trackway, any track or trail whose origin is lost in antiquity
- Animal track, imprints left on surfaces that an animal walks across
- Desire path, a line worn by people taking the shortest/most convenient route across fields, parks or woods
- Forest track, a track (unpaved road) or trail through a forest
- Fossil trackway, a type of trace fossil, usually preserving a line of animal footprints
- Trackway, an ancient route of travel or track used by animals
- Trail
- Vineyard track, a land estate (defined by law) meant for the growing of vine grapes
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
Literature
- Tracks (novel), written by Native American author Louise Erdrich
- Tracks, a 1980 book by Australian writer Robyn Davidson, source of the 2013 film in the section above
- The Tracks, a young adult novel series by J. Gabriel Gates and Charlene Keel
Music
Albums
Songs
- "Track #1", the original title of "Stinkfist", at the time of its release to avoid removal from the band Tool
- "Tracks", by Gary Numan on his album The Pleasure Principle
- "Tracks", by Juliana Hatfield on her album Wild Animals
- "Tracks", by Roam on their album Backbone
Music production
- Audio signal or Audio channel, recorded in a recording studio
- Music track, a recorded piece of music
Television
- "Tracks" (Law & Order: UK), a 2013 episode on the television series Law and Order: UK
- "Tracks", a 1999 episode of the television series Zoboomafoo
- "T.R.A.C.K.S.", an episode of Marvel TV show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Other arts, entertainment, and media
Electronics and computing
- Track (optical disc), consecutive set of sectors on the disc containing a block of data
- Track (disk drive), a circular path on the surface of a disk or diskette on which information is recorded and read
- Tracks in magnetic stripe card
Sport
- All-weather running track, a rubberized surface for track and field competitions
- Cinder track, generally a refined dirt running track for track and field competitions
- First tracks, in winter sports, cutting through fresh snow or ice before anyone else does
- List of bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracks
- Long track speed skating
- Race track
- Tartan track, a brand of all-weather running track that has become genericized
- The Track, a multi-use stadium in Saint Sampson, Guernsey
- Track and field athletics
- Track cycling
- Velodrome, a track for bicycles, track cycling competitions
Transportation
- Railway track, metal tracks on which trains ride
- Bus track, a track for certain buses, like the O-Bahn buses
- Axle track, the distance between centres of roadwheels on an axle of a motor vehicle
- Continuous track, a belt providing motive traction for a tracked vehicle such as a tank or a bulldozer
- Course (navigation), the path a vessel or aircraft plots over the surface of the Earth
- Ground track, the path on the surface of the Earth directly below an aircraft or satellite
- Ocean track, in flight planning, the path of an aircraft as determined by heading, slip, and wind effects
Other uses
- Conference track, a group of talks on a certain topic that are usually made in parallel with others
- Tracks Inc (Tracks Dance Theatre), based in Darwin, Australia
- Recording of one song or piece of music
See also