smock-racen.
A race in which a smock was offered as a prize to be run for by women or girls.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > other foot races
smock-race1707
broose1786
smock-racing1790
sack running1801
torch-race1812
torch-course1839
sack race1859
potato race1865
obstacle race1869
three-legged race1876
mud run1888
egg-and-spoon race1894
cross-country1905
obstacle course1942
runathon1943
pancake race1951
fun run1960
fun running1966
1707 London Gaz. No. 4356/4 The next Day will be a Smock Race run for by Maids in the same Park.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. x. 95 I don't like to see my daughters..red with walking, and looking for all the world as if they had been winners at a smock race.
1805 Sporting Mag. 25 304 A smock-race and a jingling-match were to take place.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words at Smock There used to be frequently, in my recollection, smock races among the young country wenches in the North.
Derivatives
ˈsmock-racing n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > other foot races
smock-race1707
broose1786
smock-racing1790
sack running1801
torch-race1812
torch-course1839
sack race1859
potato race1865
obstacle race1869
three-legged race1876
mud run1888
egg-and-spoon race1894
cross-country1905
obstacle course1942
runathon1943
pancake race1951
fun run1960
fun running1966
1790 J. Woodforde Diary 24 May (1927) III. 192 Smock-racing at the Heart this Aft. being Whit-Monday.
1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. I. iv. 566 Among other amusements, smock-racing by women was kept up there [i.e. at Pall Mall] till 1733.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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