¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Footraces
1. footrace [n] - See also: footrace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footraces
Literary usage of Footraces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Games at Athens by Jenifer Neils, Stephen V. Tracy (2003)
"They competed in six events: three footraces, wrestling, boxing, and a combination
of wrestling and boxing known as the pankration. ..."
2. Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadionby David Gilman Romano by David Gilman Romano (1993)
"It is also possible that females may have participated in cult footraces at
Corinth, since female ath- 41. Sharon Carey Herbert, "Corinthian Red Figure ..."
3. Nonfiction Reading Practice, Grade 6 by Ellen Linnihan (2003)
"Later, footraces increased to 400 yards (366 m) long. ... Some other added events
were wrestling, footraces, horse racing, and chariot racing. ..."
4. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"At the first break of dawn we were always up and running footraces to tone down
excess of physical vigor and exuberance of spirits. ..."
5. The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1857)
"Scarcely a wedding took place without the rough amusement of footraces, where
the half naked runners were a scandal to all decent strangers. ..."
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