What is "laps"

Usage examples of "laps".

One reason they did not speak was to conserve energy, because although the Baudelaires were in reasonably good shape, they had not run so many laps in their lives, and before too long they were breathing too hard to really discuss anything.

After the Baudelaires had run the first few laps and there was no sign of them stopping, the two triplets had decided to alternate between Duncan sleeping and Isadora spying, and Duncan spying and Isadora sleeping.

All that happened was that Coach Genghis had you stop running laps and let you go to bed.

I discovered this myself when I was woken up in the middle of the night and chased sixteen miles by an angry mob armed with torches, swords, and vicious dogs, and the Baudelaire orphans discovered it as they ran laps, not only for that night but also for six nights following.

The Baudelaire orphans believed that doing well in school was extremely important, even if the school happened to be run by a tyrannical idiot, but they were simply too fatigued from their nightly laps to do their assigned work.

Then we could run laps, and you could study for the comprehensive exams.

Baudelaire orphans were so tired, not only from staying up all night studying and making staples but also from nine consecutive nights of running laps, that they made plenty of assumptions, and every last one of them turned out to be incorrect.

Vietnam Guys alive with half their heads blown off, guys alive with their guts piled in their laps and drawing flies, guys alive with their jugulars spouting through their dirty fingers.

Yet their fates were on the laps of the gods, and the gods had been passing strange.

I was back twenty years and three thousand miles away, daydreaming about four naked girls suffering across our laps, the four of us brandishing our straps high in our tight hands, playing each spank in turn, as in a round of cards.

We take our time, enjoying the weepy faces, the naked boobs flopping past the laps, the pretty, squirming red fannies, and the feet fluttering heels-up at each smack.