ADJ
- deep
- fresh
- animal, boot, car, tyre
- The beach is criss-crossed with animal tracks
VERB + TRACK
- leave, make
- Rabbits had left tracks in the snow
- cover (often figurative)
- He had been careless, and had done little to cover his tracks
- follow
PREP
- on the ~ of (often figurative)
- She felt the excitement of a journalist on the track of a good story
PHRASES
- freeze/halt/stop in your tracks (figurative) , halt/stop sb/sth in their/ its tracks (figurative)
- The disease was stopped in its tracks by immunization programmes
- make tracks
- (figurative) It's getting late?I'd better make tracks (= leave)
ADJ
- narrow
- wide
- steep
- bumpy, dusty, grassy, muddy, rough, rutted, sandy, slippery, stony
- ancient, medieval
- cinder, dirt, mud, unpaved
- cart, cycle, sheep, ski
- single
- a single track road with passing places
- farm, forest/forestry, hillside, mountain, woodland
- perimeter
- A few planes were parked on the perimeter track of the airfield
TRACK + VERB
- lead
- The track leads across a meadow
- fork
- When the track forks, take the left fork
PREP
- along/down/up a/the ~
- Continue along the farm track for another hundred metres
PHRASES
- off the beaten track (figurative) (= not in a place that most people go to), on the right/wrong track (figurative)
- The new manager successfully got the team back onto the right track
- on the wrong track
- (figurative) The police were on the wrong track when they treated the case as a revenge killing
ADJ
- race (also racetrack), running
- indoor, outdoor
- all-weather
- training, warm-up
- fast
- dog
PHRASES
- track and field
- The competition features many top track and field athletes
ADJ
- rail, railway, tram
- double, single
- elevated
- eastbound, westbound, etc.
- narrow gauge, standard gauge
VERB + TRACK
- lay
- lift
- Many branch lines were closed, and the tracks lifted
ADJ
- fast, inside
- an inside track to the ear of government
- parallel, twin
- a twin track approach to crime
- career
- She decided to change her career track
VERB + TRACK
- switch
- He switched tracks and went back to college
PREP
- along a/the ~
- Film comedy developed along a similar track to film drama
- on (a/the) ~
- A UN spokesman insisted that the implementation of the peace plan is back on track. The ship was on a southerly track
- ~ for
- She seems to be on the fast track for promotion
- ~ to
- The country is on the fast track to democracy
PHRASES
- keep track of sth (= to know what is happening, where sth is, etc.)
- Keep track of all your payments by writing them down in a book
- lose track of sth (= to not know what is happening, where sth is, etc.)
- I was so absorbed in my work that I lost track of time
ADJ
- album
- live
- title
- unreleased
- dance, disco
- backing
- drum, guitar, rhythm, solo, vocal
VERB + TRACK
- cut, lay down, record
- She had already cut a couple of tracks as lead singer with her own group
- play
- listen to
