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Further prizes were awarded to the best-dressed piper; the best-dressed lady in Highland costume; the best Highland flingers; winners at soccer, high-jumping, sack-racing and novice piping.

From Time Magazine Archive

He deemed himself fortunate for being genuinely unpractical and not having to take part in that gruesome horse-racing and sack-racing and target-shooting, that crawling and dancing and jumping for the sacrosanct dollar.

From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold

The pupils should be encouraged to enter into various competitions, as walking, running, jumping, leap-frog, sack-racing, shot-pitching, tug-of-war, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various