Crossword clues for relay race
relay race
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A sports contest, where the members of a team take turns e.g. swimming, running or skiing parts of a circuit and/or performing certain action.
WordNet
n. a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance [syn: relays]
Wikipedia
During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating (usually with a baton in the fist) parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games. In the Olympic games, there are several types of relay races that are part of track and field.
Usage examples of "relay race".
The way the scholars greedily snatched at the information and hastened off to study it made Kirk think of handing off the baton in a relay race.
After the kids finished eating, we let them hang out for awhile before we started the relay race.
But Sickh and Windflower were true -- the relay race hypothesis is valid, Heem, I'm sure of it.
But Sickh and Windflower were true-the relay race hypothesis is valid, Heem, I'm sure of it.
He knew that a complex chain of maneuvers had been accomplished, and that control had been duly shifted from Ground Control to Station Control, possibly with intermediate Controls between, as though the rocket were the baton in a relay race.
More and more, the process was like a slow-motion relay race, where the baton kept getting handed off until it crossed the finish line.
None of the three Krakora brothers was able to score, but in the relay race, with Verl, they managed to come in second.
It was a relay race and for some unexplained reason Billy was first in his team.
He ran up them, gasping for breath, as fast as any of the competitors in that foolish relay race.
The false Canon Pennyfather left his room, went out of the hotel, and drove to the scene of activities where he was to play his part in the relay race.