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footrace

noun

Etymology

From foot + race.

  1. derived from hárr — “grey-haired; hoary”
  2. derived from haraz — “troop of horses”
  3. derived from رَأْس — “head”
  4. derived from linea sanguinis — “bloodline of descent”
  5. derived from *raiza✻ — “line”
  6. derived from *raitō✻
  7. derived from razza
  8. borrowed from race
  9. compounded as footrace — “foot + race”

Definitions

  1. A race run on foot.

  2. To race on foot.

    • [T]he Moslems footraced around the Kaba three times at top speed, to demonstrate to the observant Koreish that they were in excellent physical condition; […]
    • As we footraced back to the fort, I saw the lieutenant standing on top the walls watching this string of grown-up children flying along the path pursued by their barking and excited dogs.
    • During Friday’s television spectacular C'onrad, Kerwin and Weitz footraced around the walls of their silo-like cabin in what they called the “Skylab 500,” effortlessly performing flips and handsprings.

  3. To race (someone or something) on foot.

    • I could almost feel the clear spool when the game turned, headed along the beach, and I footraced him for line, and won.
    • Next Representative McCarthy promises to footrace a Manhattan bus to prove that transportation is snarled.
    • And they footraced the orienteering champion of Sweden in a sampling of a new sport.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA