Pacing

Template:Sister project Pacing may refer to:

In sport

• Pacing, an athletic technique of spreading one's effort out over longer-distance track and field races (also in swimming)
• Pacing (horse gait), a horse gait used in standardbred horse races
• Motor-paced racing, bicycling behind a car or motorcycle to profit from the slipstream

In medicine

• Pacing, an example of psychomotor agitation where a person walks around a room because of mental stress or anxiety
• Pacing (activity management), used to manage symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome
• Cardiac pacing, regulation of the heart rate, generally in the sense of artificial methods:
  • Artificial pacemaker, a medical device
  • Transcutaneous pacing, a means of making the heart beat during a medical emergency

Other uses

• Pacing (surveying), a means of estimating distances by counting the number of paces taken to walk a traverse
• Pacing, a technique in hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming
• Pacing (narrative), the speed at which a story is told

See also

• Pace (disambiguation)