footrace

See also: foot race

English

A participant in a footrace.

Etymology

From foot +‎ race.

Pronunciation

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Noun

footrace (plural footraces)

1. A race run on foot.

   Alternative form: foot race

Related terms

• footracing

Translations

race run on foot

• Catalan: carrera a peu f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賽跑 / 赛跑 (zh) (sàipǎo)

• Dutch: hardloopwedstrijd (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: juoksukilpailu, kävelykilpailu
• French: course à pied (fr) f
• German: Wettlauf (de) m
• Hungarian: futóverseny (hu), síkfutás (hu)
• Italian: corsa a piedi f
• Japanese: 徒競走 (ja) (ときょうそう, tokyōsō)
• Polish: bieg (pl) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: carrera (es) f
• Swedish: löpartävling c, löptävling c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

Verb

footrace (third-person singular simple present footraces, present participle footracing, simple past and past participle footraced)

1. (intransitive) To race on foot.
   • 1926, R[oy] F[loyd] Dibble, “The Triumphant Return”, in Mohammed, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, section I, pages 213–214:

     [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; […]

   • 1932, Richard Halliburton, “La Brave Légion”, in The Flying Carpet, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 103:

     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.

   • 1973 June 2, “NASA gears up for Skylab repair”, in The Pocono Record, volume 80, number 53, Stroudsburg, Pa., →OCLC, page 1, column 2:

     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.

2. (transitive) To race (someone or something) on foot.
   • 1920 March, R. W. Swearingen, “That Eighty-seven Pound Weakfish”, in H[enr]y S. Watson, editor, Field and Stream, 24th year, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Field and Stream Pub. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 993, column 1:

     I could almost feel the clear spool when the game turned, headed along the beach, and I footraced him for line, and won.

   • 1970 June 2, “Senators and Circuses”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 December 2025:

     Next Representative McCarthy promises to footrace a Manhattan bus to prove that transportation is snarled.

   • 1972 September, Ralph Marsh, “Discover Yourself in the High Country”, in Walter B. Babson, editor, Scouting, volume 60, number 6, North Brunswick, N.J.: Boy Scouts of America, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50, column 3:

     And they footraced the orienteering champion of Sweden in a sampling of a new sport.

Anagrams

• acre foot, acre-foot, footcare