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motocross
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thumb|A motocross rider coming off a jump thumb|Motocross championship Motocross (abbr. MX) is a form of off-road motorcycle racing held on enclosed off-road circuits. The sport evolved from motorcycle trials competitions held in the United Kingdom.
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Vinony's link graph records 1,980 inbound references to motocross, and connects out to four-stroke engine, freestyle motocross and Motocross World Championship.
It is catalogued under topics including Dirt biking, Games and sports introduced in 1924 and Motocross.
Vinony links it to 44 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- type of sport
- Subclass of
- motorcycle racing
- Named after
- cross country running
- Sport
- motorcycle sport
- Image
- Motorbike rider mono.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Motocross
- OpenStreetMap tag
- sport=motocross
- Commons category
- Motocross
- uses
- motorcycle
- short name
- MX
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- History
- Major competitions
- FIM Motocross World Championship
- AMA Motocross Championship
- Motocross des Nations
- British Motocross Championship
- Sports derived from motocross
- Supercross
- Freestyle
- SuperMoto
- ATV/Quad Motocross
- Sidecarcross
- Pit bikes and mini-motocross
- Equipment
- Motocross motorcycle
- Governing bodies
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|A motocross rider coming off a jump thumb|Motocross championship Motocross (abbr. MX) is a form of off-road motorcycle racing held on enclosed off-road circuits. The sport evolved from motorcycle trials competitions held in the United Kingdom.
==History== Motocross first evolved in Britain from motorcycle trials competitions, such as the Auto-Cycle Clubs's first quarterly trial in 1909 and the Scottish Six Days Trial that began in 1912. When organisers dispensed with delicate balancing and strict scoring of trials in favour of a race to become the fastest rider to the finish, the activity became known as "hare scrambles", said to have originated in the phrase, "a rare old scramble" describing one such early race. Though known as scrambles racing (or just scrambles) in the United Kingdom, the sport grew in popularity and the competitions became known internationally as "motocross racing", by combining the French word for motorcycle, motocyclette, into a blend with "cross country".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “motocross” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.