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noun Sports.

a race in which competitors are timed individually on a set distance over a course or track, especially to qualify for a successive event.

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Origin of time trial

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby time trial

Time's wingéd chariot, time switch, timetable, time-tested, time travel, time trial, time value, time warp, time was, time will tell, timework

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All of Project PR’s participants followed a training program designed by professional runners Nick Willis and Mary Cain, which began with a baseline 5K and culminated in a final time trial.
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Since the 1950s, fluoride has adapted itself to the prevailing concerns of the time.
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But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.
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As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.
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Thus, more time is spent organization and obtaining ones free of failings.
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It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
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The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
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About this time the famous Philippine painter, Juan Luna (vide p. 195), was released after six monthsʼ imprisonment as a suspect.
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I hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.
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British Dictionary definitions for time trial

time trial

noun

(esp in cycling) a race in which the competitors compete against the clock over a specified course

Derived forms of time trial

time-trialling, noun

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