bathtub race

noun

1. a sailing race between bathtubs fitted with outboard motors

Example Sentences

We disembarked in Nanaimo, a mid-sized city best known as the site of the annual World Championship Bathtub Race.

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For Canada's centennial in 1967, in an effort to popularize the city of Nanaimo in British Columbia, Nanaimo Harbor played host to a 36-mile bathtub race.

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Crowds also flock to the Wild and Wacky Raft Race in Miami, the bathtub race in San Diego and the equally exciting Hermit Crab Races in Ocean City, N.J.

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Which may in a way explain the bathtub race and Lizzie Borden Liberation Day and all the other otherworldly activities that go to make up the month.

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