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Pacer, PACER or Pacers may refer to:


Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Pacer'' (album), an album by The Amps * ''Pacer'' (video game), a 2020 racing game * Pacers, a band formed by
Sonny Burgess Albert Austin "Sonny" Burgess (May 28, 1929 – August 18, 2017) was an American rockabilly guitarist and singer. Biography Burgess was born on a farm near Newport, Arkansas to Albert and Esta Burgess. He graduated from Newport High School in 1 ...
* '' The Pacer'', a student newspaper circulated at the University of Tennessee


Brands and enterprises

* Pacer, a brand of
mechanical pencil A mechanical pencil, also clutch pencil, is a pencil with a replaceable and mechanically extendable solid pigment core called a "lead" . The lead, often made of graphite, is not bonded to the outer casing, and can be mechanically extended as its ...
* Pacers (confection), brand of mint-flavored confection * Kramer Pacer, a series of kramer guitars made in the 1980s


Sports

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Pacer (dinghy) The Pacer class of sailing dinghy, formerly known as the Puffin Pacer, was designed in the United Kingdom by Jack Holt. It was commissioned by Puffin Paints and Glues to be designed as sailing dinghy for use by families, so needing to be larger t ...
, a type of small sail powered racing boat, formerly called Puffin Pacer * Pacer, any horse that uses the
pace Pace or paces may refer to: Business *Pace (transit), a bus operator in the suburbs of Chicago, US * Pace Airlines, an American charter airline *Pace Foods, a maker of a popular brand of salsa sold in North America, owned by Campbell Soup Compan ...
gait, including: **
Canadian Pacer The Canadian horse (french: cheval canadien) is a horse breed from Canada. It is a strong, well-muscled breed of horse, usually dark in colour. The horses are generally used for equestrianism, riding and driving (horse), driving. Descended ...
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Narragansett Pacer The Narragansett Pacer was the first horse breed developed in the United States, but is now extinct. It was developed in the United States during the 18th century and associated closely with the state of Rhode Island, and it had become extinct by ...
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Standardbred The Standardbred is an American horse breed best known for its ability in harness racing, where members of the breed compete at either a trot or pace. Developed in North America, the Standardbred is recognized worldwide, and the breed can trace i ...
* Pacer, a
fast bowler Fast bowling (also referred to as pace bowling) is one of two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket, the other being spin bowling. Practitioners of pace bowling are usually known as ''fast'' bowlers, ''quicks'', or ''pacemen''. ...
in cricket *
Derny A Derny is a motorized bicycle for motor-paced cycling events such as during six-day and Keirin racing and motor-paced road races. Some riders train behind a derny on the road. The Derny is so-called as it was originally produced by the Fren ...
cycle, a pacer used to maintain control in cycle racing * Indiana Pacers, a basketball team in the United States *
Multi-stage fitness test The multi-stage fitness test (MSFT), also known as the beep test, bleep test, PACER (Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run), PACER test, FitnessGram PACER test, or the 20 m Shuttle Run Test (20 m SRT), is a running test used to estimate ...
, a personal endurance test involving running progressively faster: Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run or "bleep test" * Pace car, used to maintain control in autosport racing *
Pacemaker (running) A pacemaker or pacesetter, sometimes informally called a rabbit, is a runner who leads a middle- or long-distance running event for the first section to ensure a fast time and avoid excessive tactical racing. Pacemakers are frequently employed ...
, athlete setting the pace for first section of a race * Pacers, one of the two gaits in harness racing, for which the basketball team was named *
UNZA Pacers The University of Zambia Pacers, better known as UNZA Pacers, is a Zambian basketball team based in Lusaka. The team plays in the Midlands Basketball Association (MBA). It is the basketball section of the University of Zambia. Representing Zam ...
, a Zambian basketball team


Transportation

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Pacer (British Rail) Pacer was the operational name of the British Rail Classes 140, 141, 142, 143 and 144 diesel multiple unit railbuses, built between 1980 and 1987. They were inexpensively developed using a passenger body based on the Leyland National bus on to ...
, a type of passenger railbus, used in the United Kingdom and the Middle East *
AMC Pacer The AMC Pacer is a two-door compact car produced in the United States by American Motors Corporation (AMC) from the 1975 through the 1980 model years. The Pacer was also made in Mexico by Vehículos Automotores Mexicanos (VAM) from 1976 until ...
, an American car produced by the American Motors Corporation *
Edsel Pacer The Edsel Pacer is an automobile that was produced and sold by Edsel in 1958. The Pacer was based on the shorter narrower Edsel platform, shared with Ford and the Ranger. Pacer is one of two Edsel model names reused by manufacturers other than F ...
, an American car produced by Ford * Pacer International, a transportation logistic provider and the parent company of Pacer Stracktrain ** PA-22 Tri-Pacer, a tricycle gear variant of the PA-20 Pacer ** Pacer Stacktrain, a United States intermodal (container) freight transportation services company *
Piper PA-20 Pacer The PA-20 Pacer and PA-22 Tri-Pacer, Caribbean, and Colt are an American family of light aircraft, light strut-braced high-wing monoplane aircraft built by Piper Aircraft from 1949 to 1964. The Pacer is essentially a four-place version of ...
, a light airplane produced by Piper Aircraft


Other uses

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PACER (fusion) Project PACER, carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the mid-1970s, explored the possibility of a fusion power system that would involve exploding small hydrogen bombs (fusion bombs)—or, as stated in a later proposal, fission bom ...
, 1970s nuclear power project at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States * PACER (law), a United States government legal documentation system standing for Public Access to Court Electronic Records *
Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations The Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) is an umbrella agreement between members of the Pacific Islands Forum (the Forum Island Countries plus Australia and New Zealand) which provides a framework for the future development of ...
, international trade cooperation agreement


See also

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Pace (disambiguation) Pace or paces may refer to: Business * Pace (transit), a bus operator in the suburbs of Chicago, US * Pace Airlines, an American charter airline * Pace Foods, a maker of a popular brand of salsa sold in North America, owned by Campbell Soup Comp ...
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