cinder track

a track covered with small cinders, for use in running races.

Origin of cinder track

First recorded in 1885–90

Brierly dropped into his seat looking done up, as though he had spent the night in sprinting on a cinder-track.

Lord Jim |Joseph Conrad
You, of course, know that all the West Indies are now connected by means of a cinder-track with the mainland?

Over the Plum Pudding |John Kendrick Bangs
Wouldn't it have been better to put a cinder-track all round the edge and train them to run races round it?

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 29, 1920 |Various
She walked very slowly down the cinder-track of the long garden.

Sons and Lovers |David Herbert Lawrence

There is a cinder-track for cyclists on one side, and the lines of a district railway on the other.

Peeps At Many Lands: Belgium |George W. T. Omond

cinder track

a racetrack covered with fine cinders