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Track or Tracks may refer to:

Trail
Trail
A trail is a path with a rough beaten or dirt/stone surface used for travel. Trails may be for use only by walkers and in some places are the main access route to remote settlements...

, an informal road or pathway
Animal tracks
Animal tracks
Animal tracks are the imprints left behind in soil, snow, mud, or other ground surfaces that an animal walk across. Animal tracks are used by hunters in tracking their prey and by naturalists to identify animals living in a given area....

, imprints left on surfaces that an animal walk across
A Conference track is a group of talks on a certain topic that are usually made in parallel with others
Long track speed skating
Long track speed skating
Speed skating is an Olympic sport where competitors are timed while crossing a set distance. It is also a sport for leisure. Sports such as short track speedskating, inline speedskating, and quad speed skating are also called speed skating...
Track and field athletics
Track cycling
Track cycling
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using track bicycles....
Trackway
Trackway
A trackway is an ancient route of travel for people or animals. In biology, a trackway can be a set of impressions in the soft earth, usually a set of footprints, left by an animal. A fossil trackway is the fossilized imprint of a trackway. Trackways have been found all over the world...

, an ancient route of travel or track used by animals

In electronics and computing

Track (CD)
Track (CD)
On an optical disc, a track or title is a subdivision of its content. Specifically, it is a consecutive set of sectors on the disc containing a block of data. One session may contain one or more tracks of the same or different types...

, consecutive set of sectors on the disc containing a block of data
Track (disk drive)
Track (disk drive)
A disk drive track is a circular path on the surface of a disk or diskette on which information is magnetically recorded and from which recorded information is read....

, a circular path on the surface of a disk or diskette on which information is recorded and read

In entertainment

individual songs created in a recording studio
Recording studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...
Tracks (film), a 1976 film starring Dennis Hopper
Tracks (Bruce Springsteen album), 1998
Tracks (Collin Raye album)
Tracks (Collin Raye album)
Tracks is the sixth studio album released by country music artist Collin Raye. It contains the singles "Couldn't Last a Moment", "Tired of Loving This Way", and "You Still Take Me There". "Couldn't Last a Moment" was Raye's final Top 40 hit on the Billboard country charts at #3, while the other two...

, 2000
Tracks (Bomb The Bass & Jack Dangers album)
Tracks (Bomb The Bass & Jack Dangers album)
Tracks is a 12" vinyl collaboration between Bomb The Bass and Jack Dangers....

, 1998
Tracks (Oscar Peterson album)
Tracks (Oscar Peterson album)
Tracks is a 1970 album by Oscar Peterson.-Track listing:# "Give Me the Simple Life" – 3:59# "Basin Street Blues" – 4:14# "Honeysuckle Rose" – 3:05...

, 1970
"Tracks", a song by Gary Numan on his album The Pleasure Principle
The Pleasure Principle (Gary Numan album)
The Pleasure Principle is the third studio album, and debut album under his own name, by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1979...
Track Records
Track Records
Track Records is an English record label founded in London in 1966 by Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, then managers of hard rock band The Who. The most successful artists whose work appeared on the Track label were The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Thunderclap...

, a record label founded in 1966 in London, England
Tracks (magazine)
Tracks (magazine)
Tracks is a monthly Australian surf magazine, promoting itself as "the surfer's bible". It is published by Next Media.It was established in October 1970 by Alby Falzon, starting as a kind of counter-culture tabloid, printed on cheap paper and produced on Queensland's Gold Coast. Since then it has...

, monthly Australian surf
Tracks (novel)
Tracks (novel)
Tracks is a novel by Louise Erdrich, published in 1988. It is the third in a tetralogy of novels beginning with Love Medicine that explores the interrelated lives of four Anishinaabe families living on an Indian reservation near the fictional town of Argus, North Dakota...

, written by Native American author Louise Erdrich
Tracks (Transformers)
Tracks (Transformers)
Tracks is a character in the Transformers Universes. The name is now too generic to license in recent times; so the toys creator, Hasbro had to add a "modifier" - a prefix to the name in order to use it on their product, in this case the name became "Autobot Tracks" or "Turbo...

, a Transformers character
Tracks Inc (Tracks Dance Theatre), based in Darwin, Australia

In sports

All-weather running track
All-weather running track
An all weather running track is the common term to describe a rubberized artificial running surface for the sport of Track and field athletics. Throughout the history of the sport, there has always been a search for a consistent surface that gave competitors an equal advantage, to test their...

, a rubberized surface for track and field competitions
Cinder track
Cinder track
A cinder track is type of race track, generally purposed for athletics or horse racing, whose surface is composed of cinders. For running tracks, most cinder surfaces have been replaced by all-weather synthetic surfaces, which provide greater durability, more consistent results, and are less...

, generally a refined dirt running track for track and field competitions
List of bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracks
Race track
Race track
A race track is a purpose-built facility for racing of animals , automobiles, motorcycles or athletes. A race track may also feature grandstands or concourses. Some motorsport tracks are called speedways.A racetrack is a permanent facility or building...
Tartan track
Tartan track
Tartan Track is the trademarked all-weather synthetic track surfacing made of polyurethane which is used for track and field competitions. It lets athletes compete in bad weather without serious performance loss and improves their results over other surfaces...

, a brand of all-weather running track that has become genericized
Velodrome
Velodrome
A velodrome is an arena for track cycling. Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks, consisting of two 180-degree circular bends connected by two straights...

, a track for bicycles, track cycling competitions
First tracks, in winter sport
Winter sport
A winter sport is a sport which is played on snow or ice. Most such sports are variations of skiing, ice skating and sledding. Traditionally such sports were only played in cold areas during winter, but artificial snow and ice allow more flexibility...

s, cutting through fresh snow or ice before anyone else does (which often means making the first morning run when the course first opens)

In transportation

Axle track
Axle track
The axle track in automobiles and other wheeled vehicles which have two or more wheels on an axle, is the distance between the centreline of two roadwheels on the same axle, each on the other side of the vehicle...

, 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)
Course (navigation)
In navigation, a vehicle's course is the angle that the intended path of the vehicle makes with a fixed reference object . Typically course is measured in degrees from 0° clockwise to 360° in compass convention . Course is customarily expressed in three digits, using preliminary zeros if needed,...

, the path a vessel or aircraft plots over the surface of the Earth
- Ground track
  Ground track
  A ground track or ground trace is the path on the surface of the Earth directly below an aircraft or satellite. In the case of a satellite, it is the projection of the satellite's orbit onto the surface of the Earth .A satellite ground track may be thought of as a path along the Earth's surface...
  
  , the path on the surface of the Earth directly below an aircraft or satellite
- Ocean track, in flight planning
  Flight planning
  Flight planning is the process of producing a flight plan to describe a proposed aircraft flight. It involves two safety-critical aspects: fuel calculation, to ensure that the aircraft can safely reach the destination, and compliance with air traffic control requirements, to minimise the risk of...
  
  , the path of an aircraft as determined by heading, slip, and wind effects
Rail tracks
Rail tracks
The track on a railway or railroad, also known as the permanent way, is the structure consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers and ballast , plus the underlying subgrade...

, metal tracks on which trains ride
- Track gauge, the distance between rails

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In entertainment

In sports

In transportation

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