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Definition of Footrace
1. Noun. A race run on foot. "She broke the record for the half-mile run"
Generic synonyms: Race
Specialized synonyms: Fun Run, Funrun, Marathon, Obstacle Race, Steeplechase, Track Event
Derivative terms: Run, Run, Run, Run
Definition of Footrace
1. Noun. A race run on foot ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Footrace
1. a race run on foot [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footrace
Literary usage of Footrace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"24, § 2) only record the conquest of Xenophon of Corinth in the footrace, although
he had also ... 776), and then the name of the conqueror in the footrace. ..."
2. Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadionby David Gilman Romano by David Gilman Romano (1993)
"(37.3 Corinthian feet) on the north side, nature of the footrace itself would have
... In itself, this c implies a footrace of at least four lengths of the ..."
3. Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadionby David Gilman Romano by David Gilman Romano (1993)
"The nature of the footrace itself would have necessitated that the athletes ...
In itself, this design •m"'ies a footrace of at least four lengths of the ..."
4. Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports: Supplementary to Rose's ...by Charles Lawrence Thompson, Walter Malins Rose, United States Supreme Court by Charles Lawrence Thompson, Walter Malins Rose, United States Supreme Court (1909)
"335, where plaintiff was induced to enter into scheme by which he was to wager
certain money on a fraudulent footrace, which he knew to be fraudulent, ..."
5. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1894)
"LORD, CJ This was an action to recover the sum of five hundred and sixty dollars,
deposited with the defendant as a wager on the result of a footrace. ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the King's Courts at Westminster by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas (1799)
"... I am inclined to think that this is not a footrace as laid in the declaration,
for Clarke might run for his di- ..."
7. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1920)
"339, 345, 77 CCA 499, majority permitting recovery of money lost by one in fake
footrace where he was given double cross; dissenting opinion in State v. ..."
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