sailing-race

1. 1.

   a race between crews of people in yachts

   Synonymsyacht race

   Broaderboat race

Questions about sailing-race

What does sailing-race mean?

sailing-race means "a race between crews of people in yachts".

How many syllables are in sailing-race?

sailing-race has 3 syllables: sai-lin-g-race. The stress falls on "sai".

What is another word for sailing-race?

Close synonyms include yacht race. 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 sailing-race a common word?

sailing-race 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.