Antonyms for make tracks

Grammar : Verb

Spell : trak

Phonetic Transcription : træk

Definition of make tracks

Origin : late 15c., "footprint, mark left by anything," from Old French trac "track of horses, trace" (mid-15c.), possibly from a Germanic source (cf. Middle Low German treck, Dutch trek "drawing, pulling;" see trek). Meaning "lines of rails for drawing trains" is from 1805. Meaning "branch of athletics involving a running track" is recorded from 1905. Meaning "single recorded item" is from 1904, originally in reference to phonograph records. Meaning "mark on skin from repeated drug injection" is first attested 1964.
Track record (1955) is a figurative use from racing, "performance history" of an individual car, runner, horse, etc.(1907, but the phrase was more common in sense "fastest speed recorded at a particular track"). To make tracks "move quickly" is American English colloquial first recorded 1835; to cover (one's) tracks in the figurative sense first attested 1898; to keep track of something is attested from 1883. American English wrong side of the tracks "bad part of town" is by 1901. Track lighting attested from 1970.

As in run : verb move fast on foot
As in scoot : verb hurry
As in scram : verb leave quickly
As in accelerate : verb increase speed, timing
As in skedaddle : verb flee
As in bolt : verb run quickly away
As in decamp : verb depart suddenly
As in flee : verb run away to escape
As in get out : verb escape
As in hasten : verb speed something; hurry
As in hurry : verb act, move speedily

Example sentences :

Some low fellows, they say, said to him—Tom, why don't you make tracks for Canada?'
Extract from : « Uncle Tom's Cabin » by Harriet Beecher Stowe

You seem straight enough, and we will make tracks as you suggest.
Extract from : « Two Daring Young Patriots » by W. P. Shervill

My advice to you is, make tracks for your starvation desert.
Extract from : « The Faith Healer » by William Vaughn Moody

I'm going out there as fast as I can make tracks for the West.
Extract from : « Two Boy Gold Miners » by Frank V. Webster

If he adds big hobnails to make tracks with, he is sure of himself.
Extract from : « Camp and Trail » by Stewart Edward White

Now you part and make tracks for home, one on foot and one in a fly.
Extract from : « Hard Cash » by Charles Reade

Get our hands loose first, then our legs, then kill them fellows and make tracks.
Extract from : « Out on the Pampas » by G. A. Henty

But I've got to make tracks, for if she were here, where would I put her?
Extract from : « The Harvester » by Gene Stratton Porter

So it does, and I reckon the best thing we can do is to make tracks for some place of safety.
Extract from : « Three Young Ranchmen » by Ralph Bonehill

"I'll make tracks for the south, too," said Tartarin to himself.
Extract from : « The World's Greatest Books, Vol III » by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

Synonyms for make tracks

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