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View synonyms for three-legged race
three-legged race
noun
- a race among a number of paired contestants, each contestant having one leg tied to the adjacent leg of their partner.
three-legged race
noun
- a race in which pairs of competitors run with their adjacent legs tied together
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Word History and Origins
Origin of three-legged race1
First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences
Put 'im through the mill, they 'ave, at yer three-legged race meetin' at Timsdale-'Orton.
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At that moment I forgot all about the three-legged race, and gave my whole heart up to the issue of this jump.
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If they were tied together for life in a three-legged race, which would suffer the more?
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Mary's face was shining in the heat; with an immense output of energy she started a three-legged race.
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You may laugh, reader, but it was no joke, that three-legged race.
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