Track

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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

  • Tracks (1976 film), an American film starring Dennis Hopper
  • Tracks (2003 film), a 2003 animated short film
  • Tracks (2013 film), an Australian film starring Mia Wasikowska
  • The Track (film), a 1975 French thriller–drama film

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

  • Track Records, a record label founded in 1966 in London, England
  • Soundtrack, a recorded song

Albums

  • Tracks (Oscar Peterson album), 1970
  • Tracks (Liverpool Express album), 1976
  • Tracks (Bruce Springsteen album), 1998
  • Tracks (Collin Raye album), 2000

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

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Tracks (Law & Order: UK), a 2013 episode on the television series Law and Order: UK
  • Tracks (magazine), an Australian surf magazine published since 1970
  • Tracks (podcast), a British thriller-mystery fiction podcast released from 2016 to 2020
  • Tracks – The Train Set Game, a 2017 video game developed by Whoop Games, commonly referred to as Tracks
  • Tracks (Transformers), a Transformers character
  • "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.

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

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

Topics referred to by the same term
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