Pacing may refer to:
In sport
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Pacing, an athletic technique of spreading one's effort out over longer-distance track and field races (also in
swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...
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Pacing (horse gait), a horse gait used in standardbred horse races
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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
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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:
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Artificial pacemaker, a medical device
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Transcutaneous pacing, a means of making the heart beat during a medical emergency
Other uses
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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
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a Pseudoscience, pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy that first appeared in Richard Bandler and John Grinder's book ''The Structure of Magic I'' (1975). NLP ...
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Pacing (narrative), the speed at which a story is told
See also
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Pace (disambiguation)
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