Definition of three-legged race
: a race between pairs of competitors with each pair having their adjacent legs bound together
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Highlights include a blueberry pie eating contest, a corn hole tournament, a three-legged race, and performances by Brandy, Four on the Floor, Haywire, and the Reading Community Concert Band.
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Family activities such as hula hoop contests and three-legged races will be available to the public, as well as several different food vendors.
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Kim and Leno, in fact, have run a kind of three-legged race, urging their supporters to list the other candidate as their second choice.
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At some summer camps, the boys and girls will be skipping the campfire songs and three-legged races.
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Instead, there’s a three-legged race, a water balloon toss, impromptu dance-offs.
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Make both subtle and overt jokes about the perks of threesomes—more people to high five afterward, how fun three-legged races are, and so on.
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Set up a relay course around trees, pair up for three-legged races, or draw out a hopscotch court on the pavement.
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North Carolina’s Luke Maye launched it in desperation and off-balance, with all of the grace of a grandpa galumphing through a three-legged race.
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First Known Use of three-legged race
1872
THREE-LEGGED RACE Defined for English Language Learners
three-legged race
Definition of three-legged race for English Language Learners
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: a race in which two people run together with one person's left leg tied to the other person's right leg
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