lenktynės in English:

Mountain bike racing has caught on with young Japanese in the past few years.

Boats were racing last night.

What's your favorite racing game?

Tom doesn't know a whole lot about racing.

stop racing

He knows better than to spend all his money on horse racing.

He watched the horse racing through his binoculars.

With horse racing and such, these are called "stakes". For this meaning the plural form is often used.

The front-roller thrust angle is 2 degrees, probably there were plans to strengthen that angle a little when racing.

Racing car drivers aren't just in it for the prize money but also for the thrill of racing.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

Alphonse looked at the racing clouds, his eyes turned to the sky.