Definition of "foot race" []

• Alternative form of footrace. (noun)

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• "He saw cock-fights occasionally, dog-fights often, and men-fights regularly -- now and then he was entertained with a quarter race and a foot race -- upon one occasion he took up a banter of "the universal world" for a foot race, by a youth both older and larger than himself, and gained the victory handsomely."
• "The next Saturday was a festive day for New Iberia, featuring a citywide cleaning of the streets by volunteers, a free crawfish boil in City Park, and a sixteen-mile foot race that began with a grand assemblage of the runners under the trees by the recreation center."