All race synonyms
race
R r verb race
- compete β If you compete in a contest or a game, you take part in it.
- take part β a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- run β execution
- contest β A contest is a competition or game in which people try to win.
- sprint β to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- battle β A battle is a violent fight between groups of people, especially one between military forces during a war.
- vie β to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- bolt β A bolt is a long metal object which screws into a nut and is used to fasten things together.
- chase β If you chase someone, or chase after them, you run after them or follow them quickly in order to catch or reach them.
- dart β If a person or animal darts somewhere, they move there suddenly and quickly.
- dash β If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
- fly β to move through the air using wings.
- gallop β to ride a horse at a gallop; ride at full speed: They galloped off to meet their friends.
- hurry β to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed by up): Hurry, or we'll be late. Hurry up, it's starting to rain.
- hustle β to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
- rush β to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
- scamper β to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scramble β to climb or move quickly using one's hands and feet, as down a rough incline.
- shoot β to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- tear β the act of tearing.
- boil β When a hot liquid boils or when you boil it, bubbles appear in it and it starts to change into steam or vapour.
- bustle β If someone bustles somewhere, they move there in a hurried way, often because they are very busy.
- career β A career is the job or profession that someone does for a long period of their life.
- course β Course is often used in the expression 'of course', or instead of 'of course' in informal spoken English. See of course.
- fling β to throw, cast, or hurl with force or violence: to fling a stone.
- haste β swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hasten β to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- hie β to hasten; speed; go in haste.
- lash β an ocean-going vessel equipped with special cranes and holds for lifting and stowing cargo-carrying barges that can be sailed up inland waterways or into port facilities from offshore.
- outstrip β to outdo; surpass; excel.
- post β power-on self-test
- pursue β to strive to gain; seek to attain or accomplish (an end, object, purpose, etc.).
- scud β to run or move quickly or hurriedly.
- scuttle β Nautical. a small hatch or port in the deck, side, or bottom of a vessel. a cover for this.
- skim β to take up or remove (floating matter) from the surface of a liquid, as with a spoon or ladle: to skim the cream from milk.
- spurt β to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- swoop β to sweep through the air, as a bird or a bat, especially down upon prey.
- whisk β to move with a rapid, sweeping stroke: She whisked everything off the table with her arm.
- wing β either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
- speed β rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- zip β zip code.
noun race
- competition β Competition is a situation in which two or more people or groups are trying to get something which not everyone can have.
- marathon β a plain in SE Greece, in Attica: the Athenians defeated the Persians here 490 b.c.
- steeplechase β a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- relay race β a race between two or more teams of contestants, each contestant being relieved by a teammate after running part of the distance.
- speeding β rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- contention β Someone's contention is the idea or opinion that they are expressing in an argument or discussion.
- event β A thing that happens, esp. one of importance.
- match β a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- relay β a series of persons relieving one another or taking turns; shift.