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footrace

[ foot-reys ]

noun

  1. a race run by contestants on foot.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of footrace1

First recorded in 1655–65; foot + race 1

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Example Sentences

Winning that Week 17 footrace against the Chiefs13 completed Cincinnati’s seasonlong sweep of AFC playoff teams.

I have never left my house to go cheer for people running any sort of footrace, and I don’t know if I understand what motivates people to do it, but I am thankful that they do it.

Jones was targeted deep more frequently, suggesting that his skillset is better suited to the demands of beating fast humans in a footrace, but he’s also not as successful at creating separation from defenders as Thomas is.

Atalanta is a young princess, and her father has decreed she must marry whichever man wins a footrace.

Hence, they never went to sleep, and in only a single instance recorded in history had a tortoise won a footrace from a hare.

I am really a lively man in a footrace, for my father is a watchmaker, and he has given me instructions in the business.

He wanted to fight and was going to have a fight or a footrace with the first Indians he met.

Let's get the people's work done in time to avoid a footrace with Santa Claus.

One day a merry group of young men proposed a footrace, the course to be around the square—a distance of about one hundred yards.

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