relay race
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a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
Life is a relay race that assumes the timely transfer of the torch of life to the next one, having fulfilled its purpose in the chain of generations and to remain in the life of future generations.
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor . . .
In a relay race members of a team take turns in racing parts of a circuit or performing a certain racing form.
It can be thought of as a relay race with five runners, using the buggy vehicle as the baton.
The China virus is a relay race to help the Communist regime achieve world domination.