lap of honour

1. 1.

   a lap by the winning person or team run to celebrate the victory

   Synonymsvictory lap

   Broaderlap

Questions about lap of honour

What does lap of honour mean?

lap of honour means "a lap by the winning person or team run to celebrate the victory".

What is another word for lap of honour?

Close synonyms include victory lap. 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 lap of honour a common word?

lap of honour is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.