road race
Noun
Meaning
road race (plural road races)
A race run on roads rather than a track.
Examples
I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.
Beauregard’s story begins with a high-stakes road race, on a potholed byway, accompanied by a chorus of crickets and whippoorwills.
Bob Maitland a successful amateur cyclist and the highest placed British finisher in the 1948 Olympic Games road race and now an independent rider in the BSA team was a BSA employee working in the design office as a draughtsman.
Professional cyclist and Namibian Road Race Champion Dan Craven represented Namibia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in both the road race and individual time trial.
At age 15 he ran his first road race, which was a 10k on the Regent and Albert Street route, and placed 3rd in that event.
EIGHTY elite cyclists took part in a road race around South Oxfordshire on Sunday.