Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun starting_post
1 sense of starting post
Sense 1
starting post -- (a post marking the starting point of a race (especially a horse race))
=> post, stake -- (a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track); "a pair of posts marked the goal"; "the corner of the lot was indicated by a stake")