footrace

Thân thiện

She won the footrace by a wide margin.

Definition

Noun: A competitive event where participants run a specified distance on foot to determine who is the fastest. It is a formal or organized running contest.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The school's annual sports day featured a 100-meter footrace.
  • He trained for months to win the prestigious footrace through the city streets.

Advanced Usage

• "to be a footrace against time": This idiom describes a situation where one must complete a task very quickly before a deadline.
  • Getting the supplies to the remote village before the storm hit was a footrace against time.

Variants and Related Words

• Race (n): A general competition of speed. A footrace is a specific type of race.
• Sprint (n): A short, very fast footrace.
• Marathon (n): A long-distance footrace, traditionally 42.195 kilometers (26.219 miles).

Synonyms

• Running race: The most direct synonym.
• Dash: A short, quick run or race.
• Heat: One of several preliminary races in a contest.

Related Phrases

• "to win/lose a footrace": To be the fastest/slowest in the running competition.
  • Despite a strong start, she lost the footrace in the final meters.
• "a close footrace": A race where the competitors finish with very little time between them.
  • It was a close footrace, with first and second place separated by only a hundredth of a second.

Related Idioms

• A race against the clock: Similar to "a footrace against time," emphasizing urgency and a time limit.
  • Completing the project before the client arrived was a race against the clock.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a race run on foot
   • she broke the record for the half-mile run

Từ đồng nghĩa

• foot race
• run