road race

American  

[rohd reys] / ˈroʊd ˌreɪs /

noun

1. a race that is performed on paved roads.

   State Street will be closed from noon to 5 p.m. for the running of the Governor’s Cup road race.

   Last year’s champion driver appears to have lost this year’s Bordeaux-Paris road race.

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Etymology

Origin of road race

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

Peter Doyle:, external Irishman competed at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics in the road race.

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She went on to win bronze medals in the women's C1-3 road race and time trial at the Games.

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In August, she won another bronze medal at the para-cycling World Championships in Belgium, this time for the C3 road race event.

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Despite the road race start times being moved 30 minutes earlier than scheduled, in anticipation of the heat over the opening weekend in the Japanese capital, temperatures still climbed to 30C over the course of the first morning session.

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Thomas also won track gold at two Olympics - Beijing in 2008 and London 2012 - as well as road race gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

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