Definitions for footrace

footrace foot·race

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IPA: /ˈfʊtˌreɪs/

Footrace is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 280 anagrams from letters in footrace (acefoort).

Definitions for footrace

noun

  1. a race run by contestants on foot.

Origin of footrace

First recorded in 1655-65; foot + race1

Examples for footrace

Atalanta is a young princess, and her father has decreed she must marry whichever man wins a footrace.

He wanted to fight and was going to have a fight or a footrace with the first Indians he met.

I am really a lively man in a footrace, for my father is a watchmaker, and he has given me instructions in the business.

The rebels had a fair field for a footrace; hence the adjutant's mistake.

Hence, they never went to sleep, and in only a single instance recorded in history had a tortoise won a footrace from a hare.

Let's get the people's work done in time to avoid a footrace with Santa Claus.

With serious irony he asks himself, if a runner who is overcome in a footrace can hope to outstrip horses?

No domestic animal but the greyhound can pass a strong young collie in a footrace.

One day a merry group of young men proposed a footrace, the course to be around the square—a distance of about one hundred yards.

What was contemplated as a triumphal reentrance becomes a footrace to the nearest ready-made clothing store.

Word Value for footrace
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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