A race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance.
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Examples for "relays "
Examples for "relays "
1 The labourers worked in relays , as did the rest of the soldiers.
2 Confirmation would come via a series of hastily linked encrypted hyperspace relays .
3 They were allowed to wash at the pump in relays of six.
4 Similar relays will be placed as far as the frontiers of Würtemberg.
5 The men went to work at the pumps and worked by relays .
1 A seven-mile relay race was won by a buck named Slonny Begay.
2 This year they're also taking part in a relay race from Oregon's Mt.
3 PSNI Chief Constable Mr Hugh Orde joined junior officers in the relay race .
4 After solo acrobatics, Mayor Sapristos had arranged for a relay race .
5 He had dropped in the harness and younger men were taking up the relay race .
6 Its members thought of themselves as completing the first laps of an epic relay race .
7 The system was really a relay race against time.
8 It was billed as a team relay race , but it was only about one man, Michael Phelps.
9 In terms of the connection between the dancers in the film, Nyezi notes that it comes off as a " relay race " .
10 Various land games may be adapted for water use, such as ball passing (using a water polo ball), relay race , etc.
11 They passed him along like a baton in a relay race , as Stark and Waters just went on shooting at whatever they could see.
12 A short skit featuring Sally Phillips running a relay race in high heels might be STP's answer to Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks.
13 For the final event, a relay race , the men were divided into teams with the fleet youth of ten summers running in the last position.
14 For the next five weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Sarah's life was a relay race , with no one to whom she could pass the baton.
15 Karaoguz pulls Pat Yost from a relay race , and soon the two of them are doing Eskimo rolls-somersaultswith each man holding the other's ankles.
16 Lenton set the mark as the lead-off swimmer in a mixed 4x100 metres freestyle relay race between Australia and the US.
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