bathtub race
Britishnoun
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We disembarked in Nanaimo, a mid-sized city best known as the site of the annual World Championship Bathtub Race.
From Washington Post
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.
From US News
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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