three-legged race

noun

1. 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

1. a race in which pairs of competitors run with their adjacent legs tied together

Word History and Origins

Origin of three-legged race¹

First recorded in 1900–05

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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