race

1. 1.

   move hurridly

   “He rushed down the hall to receive his guests”

   “The cars raced down the street”

   Synonymsrushhotfoothastenhiespeedpelt alongrush alongcannonball alongbucket alongbelt alongstep on it

   Broadertravel

   Narrowerbargeteardart
2. 2.

   compete in a race

   “he is running the Marathon this year”

   “let's race and see who gets there first”

   Synonymsrun

   Broadercompete

   Narrowershowplaceboat-racehorse-racecampaignspeed skate
3. 3.

   to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others

   “We are racing to find a cure for AIDS”

   Broaderact
4. 4.

   cause to move fast or to rush or race

   “The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze”

   Synonymsrush

   Broadermove

Other forms of race

plural

races·

past tense

raced·

present participle

racing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about race

What does race mean?

race means "any competition". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in race?

race has 1 syllable: race. In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪs/.

What is another word for race?

Close synonyms include subspecies, slipstream, airstream, backwash, wash. 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 race a common word?

race is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with race?

1 word rhymes with race. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.