running broad jump
Americannoun
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Chief star: R. M. N. Tisdall, rangy Irishman, who won the shot put, running broad jump, 20-yard high hurdles, quarter-mile.
From Time Magazine Archive
Foster had already won the running broad jump and was in a fair way to win the shot-put as well.
From Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College by Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth
The Ithacans also cleaned up in the running broad jump with a team average of 20 feet, 9 and 1/16 inches.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)
For one hundred and twenty yards, with three-feet-six-inch hurdles, fifteen seconds; running broad jump, over twenty-three feet; running high jump, over six feet.
From Injun and Whitey to the Rescue by Hart, William S.
Wondering then whether they might not teach him something, Jack did a standing broad jump and Bud a running broad jump and Harry a hop, skip, and a jump.
From Erskine Dale?Pioneer by Fox, John
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