foot race

Questions about foot race

What does foot race mean?

foot race means "a race run on foot".

What is another word for foot race?

Close synonyms include footrace, run. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foot race a common word?

foot 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.