What is race?

  • (noun): A contest of speed.
    Example: "The race is to the swift"
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on race, races:

2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series - MBNA NASCAR RacePoints 400
... Ryan Newman sat on the pole and won the Busch Series race the day before ... 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 ...
XM Satellite Radio Indy 200
... The XM 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 - 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 ... This race had 22 caution flags which broke the previous record of 20 held by three races at Bristol Motor Speedway ...
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 ...
Valentino Rossi - Career - The Early Years
... he took up minimoto and before the end of 1991 had won numerous regional races ... 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 ...

More definitions of "race":

  • (noun): A canal for a current of water.
    Synonyms: raceway
  • (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"
  • (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): Any competition.
    Example: "The race for the presidency"
  • (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"
  • (verb): Compete in a race.
    Example: "Let's race and see who gets there first"
    Synonyms: run
  • (verb): Cause to move fast or to rush or race.
    Synonyms: rush

Famous quotes containing the word race:

    “You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, & you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “Ye say they all have passed away,
    That noble race and brave;
    That their light canoes have vanished
    From off the crested wave;
    That, mid the forests where they roamed,
    There rings no hunters’ shout;
    But their name is on your waters,
    Ye may not wash it out.”
    —Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)

    “It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)