victory lap

1. 1.

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

   Synonymslap of honour

   Broaderlap

Questions about victory lap

What does victory lap mean?

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

What is another word for victory lap?

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

victory lap 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.