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Definition of Sprinting
1. sprint [v] - See also: sprint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprinting
Literary usage of Sprinting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rowing and Track Athletics by Samuel Crowther, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1905)
"CHAPTER V Sprinting AND AMERICAN SPRINTERS SPRINTERS are born and not made.
The making helps, and is necessary, but the gift of speed must be born into them ..."
2. Athletic Training by Michael C. Murphy (1914)
"CHAPTER IV Sprinting ONE often hears it said nowadays that "sprinters, like poets,
are born, not made. ..."
3. Modern athletics by Henry Fazakerley Wilkinson (1875)
"THIS branch of pedestrianism may be appropriately divided into three
heads:—viz., sprinting,* which includes all distances from 100 to 400 yards; ..."
4. Outing (1892)
"Before starting practicing the running broad jump with any degree of vigor one
should first get into good sprinting condition. It never does any harm to be ..."
5. Athletics and Football by Montague Shearman (1887)
"Baker was a sprinter pure and simple, and, as far as we recollect, 'ran low,' in
what is to our mind the best and most workmanlike sprinting style, ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"Sprinting is the name given to the running of short distances at " full burst."
Sprinting is perhaps more popular, both with spectators and athletes, ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"A Running is usually thus classified: (1) sprinting includes all distances up to
... A great point in sprinting is to obtain a good start, for which purpose ..."
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