The phrase "a balloon race" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a competitive event where balloons are released and race to a designated point or where participants use balloons in a race format.
Example: "The annual festival featured a thrilling balloon race that attracted participants from all over the region."
Alternatives: "a balloon competition" or "a balloon contest".
A charity balloon race has been abandoned over concerns about its possible effect on wildlife.
The event, planned for 5 May is expected to be replaced with another event or a virtual balloon race on the internet.
Other events include the largest annual fireworks show in the country, the Pegasus Parade of equestrian units, a bed race, a hot-air balloon race, dance competitions, art contests, a marathon and half marathon and golf tournaments.
I've flown in an international balloon race.
In a homage to a hot-air balloon race held here that actually pre-dates the first Indy by two years, a huge cloud of balloons are released just before the race.
"I had to keep my cool and start gradually cutting the balloons". Mr Morgan, who has lived in Bristol for 15 years and runs an adventure company, wants to eventually set up a competitive helium balloon race in Africa.
In a Hare and Hound balloon race, Bruce Comstock, a record-setting balloonist, will attempt to outmaneuver competitors.
During the 1904 World's Fair, ballooning was demonstrated as a viable means of transportation; in October 1907, the second Gordon Bennett Cup, an international balloon racing event, was held in the city.
Making good on the promise of last year's Gulag Orkestar, The Flying Club Cup (inspired by an early-20th-century hot air balloon race) whisks him into the visionary songwriting orbit of Rufus Wainwright and Sufjan Stevens.
Mr. Boxley -- whose tactics included dressing up in a Union Colored Troops Civil War uniform and handing out flyers at the city's annual hot air balloon race -- grew up in a poor single-parent household, the son of a maid.
