Pacing

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