Some forms of karting (and many other forms of racing) take place on oval tracks These may be dirt ovals or asphalt ovals An oval may be either banked or flat See speedway
a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; "the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant"
Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical
The American-style stock car type of racing, where cars compete on oval tracks of different shapes (true oval, square oval, tri-oval, etc ) and are tuned to only go straight or left Other types of vehicles not covered in this glossary also compete on ovals, including sprint cars, midgets, motorcycles, snowmobiles, etc In R/C terms, most oval race cars are pan cars, with all the weight (batteries, electronics, etc ) on the left side so the car is the most stable when turning left
Oval things have a shape that is like a circle but is wider in one direction than the other. the small oval framed picture of a little boy. Oval is also a noun. Using 2 spoons, mould the cheese into small balls or ovals. a shape like a circle, but wider in one direction than the other (ovalis, from ovum; OVUM)