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Another standalone song is performed by a character only tangentially connected to Elmer: In 1928, to promote the completion of the cross-country Route 66, civic organizers sponsored a footrace that took runners from one coast to the other.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2025
On Saturday, Beijing hosted what’s being called the world’s first humanoid half-marathon—a footrace that pitted human runners against human-like robots.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
Michael Callahan failed to corral the puck at the offensive blue line, sending him stumbling into a neutral-zone footrace with Nesterenko.
—Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025
The statement of carrying this symbolic weight through the toughest footrace on Earth through the Sahara Desert was certainly a powerful one.
—Paras J. Haji, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2025
On Saturday, Beijing hosted what’s being called the world’s first humanoid half-marathon—a footrace that pitted human runners against human-like robots.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
Michael Callahan failed to corral the puck at the offensive blue line, sending him stumbling into a neutral-zone footrace with Nesterenko.
—Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025
The statement of carrying this symbolic weight through the toughest footrace on Earth through the Sahara Desert was certainly a powerful one.
—Paras J. Haji, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Footrace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/footrace. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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footrace
noun
foot·race
-ˌrās 
: a race run on foot
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