What is race?

  • (verb): To work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others.
    Example: "We are racing to find a cure for AIDS"
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on race, races:

2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series - Coca-Cola 600
... Results The Coca-Cola 600 was a night race held on May 29 at Lowe's Motor Speedway, which was the fourth consecutive night race for Nextel Cup in May 2005 ... This race had 22 caution flags which broke the previous record of 20 held by three races at Bristol Motor Speedway ...
XM Satellite Radio Indy 200
... Satellite Radio Indy 200 was an IndyCar race held at the Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona ... The race was revived in 1950 by the American Automobile Association, and then passed to the United States Auto Club in 1956 ... USAC moved the race to the newly built Phoenix International Raceway in 1964 ...
2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series - MBNA NASCAR RacePoints 400
... Newman sat on the pole and won the Busch Series race the day before ... (35th), Greg Biffle (13th) and Kurt Busch (23rd), who led the most laps in the race ... Jimmie Johnson battled his teammate Kyle Busch at the end of the race, but Johnson was able to hold on to win ...
Valentino Rossi - Career - The Early Years
... Rossi continued to race karts and finished fifth at the national kart championships in Parma ... However, the high cost of racing karts led to the decision to race minimoto exclusively ... He finished ninth that race weekend ...
2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series - UAW-GM Quality 500
... Complete Results The race, held on October 15 at Lowe's Motor Speedway was delayed by the finish of the Southern California-Notre Dame college football game which was being ... The race was marred by multiple tire problems, similar to the 2005 United States Grand Prix where tires seemed to "self-destruct" on their own ... At one point, NASCAR even considered calling the race, although they ended up throwing competition caution flags instead ...

More definitions of "race":

  • (noun): (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species.
    Synonyms: subspecies
  • (noun): People who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock.
    Example: "Some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"
  • (noun): A contest of speed.
    Example: "The race is to the swift"
  • (noun): A canal for a current of water.
    Synonyms: raceway
  • (verb): Cause to move fast or to rush or race.
    Synonyms: rush
  • (verb): Compete in a race.
    Example: "Let's race and see who gets there first"
    Synonyms: run
  • (noun): Any competition.
    Example: "The race for the presidency"

Famous quotes containing the word race:

    “Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me,
    Why plowing, building, ruling and the rest,
    Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest,
    By cursed Cain’s race invented be,
    And blest Seth vexed us with Astronomie.”
    —John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

    “In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread”; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “A race horse needs only a touch of the whip; a clever person needs only a hint.”
    —Chinese proverb.