For example , gamers do not `` speedrun '' a racing game . In those cases the game 's standard setting for recording fast times is called a time attack or time trial mode . The term , a compound of the words speed and run ( as in `` running '' through a game , referring to the playing of a game ) is only used in the context of games that were not originally or primarily designed with fast completion in mind ( one generally does not `` speedrun '' a racing game ; in those cases the game 's standard setting for achieving and recording fast times is called a time attack or time trial mode ) .