boat race

1. 1.

   a race between people rowing or driving boats

   Broaderrace

   Narrowersailing-race

Questions about boat race

What does boat race mean?

boat race means "a race between people rowing or driving boats".

Is boat race a common word?

boat race is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.