Sentence examples for relay race from inspiring English sources

'relay race' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a race between two or more teams, in which members of each team take turns running a certain distance before passing on a baton to the next member. For example: The company held an annual relay race, with each team running two laps around the campus.

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relay race

noun

A sports contest, where the members of a team take turns e.g. swimming, running or skiing parts of a circuit and/or performing certain action.

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We recently completed our annual relay race in Edinburgh.

"Being controller is like being in a relay race.

"It's a relay race, really," explained Mr. Gill.

History is a relay race, one generation handing information off to another.

From this the idea evolved to have a relay race ("estafette").

They pass you along like the baton in a relay race.

I have called the book a "relay race of scientific stories".

Where would it figure in the relay race of scientific discoveries?

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On Sunday night, he was selected as a member of the relay-race pool.

"Yes!" Next lesson: progress on the grid game, with a relay-race component.

However, using much higher magnification (> 400×) and imaging rates (1000 frames/s), two different mechanisms (quasihomogeneous and relay-race) of combustion propagation have been observed recently.

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