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Contest to find who’ll be first to be fired?
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sack race
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context games racing English) A race in which competitors stand in a sack or similar item and try to be the first to jump to the finish line.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a novelty race in which competitors jump ahead with their feet confined in a sack
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The sack race or gunny sack race is a competitive game in which participants place both of their legs inside a sack or pillow case that reaches their waist or neck and hop forward from a starting point toward a finish line. The first person to cross the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Chief Officer C.L. Mason was in the winning hose cart team and also won the sack race .
Usage examples of sack race.
One of them, a small girl of sorts, grabbed my hand and hung on to it as I clove my way through the jam to where the Mothers' Sack Race was to finish.
You two couldn't run a three-legged sack race without the sack ending up on somebody's head.
We shuffled forward slowly like competitors in an eight-legged sack race, towards the far end of the room.
Charlie, who turnd out to be a regular size, was dealt with fairly quickly, but it took almost an hour to find anything that didn't make Tommy look as if he were entering a sack race.
We're side to side, like a cruel sack race, the three-legged man hobbling down the aisle for some healing.