scratch race

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   a race in which all contestants start from scratch (on equal terms)

   Broaderrace

Questions about scratch race

What does scratch race mean?

scratch race means "a race in which all contestants start from scratch (on equal terms)".

Is scratch race a common word?

scratch 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.