road race

[rohd reys]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a race that is performed on paved roads.
State Street will be closed from noon to 5 p.m. for the running of the Governor’s Cup road race.
Last year’s champion driver appears to have lost this year’s Bordeaux-Paris road race.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of road race¹

First recorded in 1850–55

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Alongside her is housemate Cat Ferguson – who leads the Tour of Britain after victory on the third stage and is the current junior road race world champion and rider for the World Tour Movistar team.

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O’Connor estimates he has shot 13.5 million elementary school photos; Knight got into the Santa and Easter Bunny businesses and bought the road race photography company MarathonFoto.

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Evenepoel won gold in the Olympic time trail and the road race at the Paris Games last summer.

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The Tour of Flanders, which began in 1919 and known as De Ronde, is a historic one-day road race held in Belgium every spring and highlighted by climbs and cobbled sectors.

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Mr Kibble, who represented Wales in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in both the individual time trial and the road race, said the "highly watched tour" will "bring lots of great tourism and massive exposure".

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