off the pace

phrase

US

: behind in a race, competition, etc.

The winner finished in 4 minutes, 30 seconds, and the next runner was three seconds off the pace.

Examples of off the pace in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

From the first minute of the game, France looked off the pace and off color and barely laid a glove on Spain. — Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 14 July 2026

Lottie Woad of England, who began the third round with a one-shot lead, struggled to a 72 and fell nine shots off the pace. — ABC News, 11 July 2026

Fernando Alonso managed to snare a point in the madness of Monaco earlier this month, but a last-row lockout in Austria proved just how far off the pace Aston remain. — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 1 July 2026

The Blues were nine points off the pace being set by leader Manchester City coming into Week 19, and cannot afford to drop any more results. — Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026

Rhymes for off the pace

• aerospace
• anatase
• anyplace
• commonplace
• cyberspace
• database
• diabase
• diastase
• dnase
• elastase
• fireplace
• hyperspace