sack race

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   a novelty race in which competitors jump ahead with their feet confined in a sack

   Broaderrace

Questions about sack race

What does sack race mean?

sack race means "a novelty race in which competitors jump ahead with their feet confined in a sack".

Is sack race a common word?

sack 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.