bumping race


noun
  1. (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front

Words Nearby bumping race

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

How to use bumping race in a sentence

  • I may at this point give a word of advice to a coxswain in a bumping race.

    Rowing | Rudolf Chambers Lehmann