Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A race in which the legs of the contestants are incased in sacks gathered at the top and tied around the body.
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Examples
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“Here is the prize for the first sack-race,” said Miss Lydia, taking a large parcel from the table where the prizes were laid and giving it to Mrs. Irwine before Bessy came up,
Adam Bede 2004
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Gram and the girls therefore decided to give up going altogether, but we three boys at length harnessed old Sol into the express wagon and started; for we hoped to see the fireworks in the evening and perhaps the sack-race and wheelbarrow-race which had been set for afternoon.
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"This is no sack-race; you can't go out to walk in your bag.
On the Firing Line Hamilton Brock Fuller 1905
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