Synonyms for race
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English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. race

   A career was originally the ground for a race, or, especially, for a knight's charge in tournament or battle; whence career was early applied to the charge itself.

   If you will use the lance, take ground for your career.... The four horsemen met in full career.

   Scott Quentin Durward ch. 14, p. 194. [D. F. & CO.]

   In its figurative use career signifies some continuous and conspicuous work, usually a life-work, and most frequently one of honorable achievement. Compare BUSINESS.

   Synonyms:
   career, charge, course, flight, line of achievement, passage, public life, rush

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. race

   Synonyms:
   course, pursuit, career, family

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. racenoun

   any competition

   "the race for the presidency"

   Synonyms:
   wash, airstream, raceway, subspecies, backwash, slipstream

2. racenoun

   a contest of speed

   "the race is to the swift"

   Synonyms:
   wash, airstream, raceway, subspecies, backwash, slipstream

3. racenoun

   people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock

   "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"

   Synonyms:
   wash, airstream, raceway, subspecies, backwash, slipstream

4. subspecies, racenoun

   (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species

   Synonyms:
   wash, airstream, raceway, subspecies, backwash, slipstream

5. slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, washnoun

   the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

   Synonyms:
   backwash, wake, wash drawing, wash, airstream, washout, subspecies, washables, dry wash, laundry, slipstream, raceway, lavation, aftermath, washing

6. raceway, raceverb

   a canal for a current of water

   Synonyms:
   backwash, racecourse, wash, airstream, racetrack, subspecies, track, slipstream, raceway

7. rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on itverb

   move fast

   "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street"

   Synonyms:
   run, hotfoot, zip, travel rapidly, cannonball along, quicken, bucket along, hurry, accelerate, rush along, hie, hasten, belt along, speed, expedite, look sharp, induce, pelt along, stimulate, festinate, speed up, step on it, rush

8. race, runverb

   compete in a race

   "he is running the Marathon this year"; "let's race and see who gets there first"

   Synonyms:
   course, cannonball along, bucket along, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, belt along, run away, move, turn tail, range, run, guide, function, lead, lam, feed, hasten, flow, melt down, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, speed, consort, execute, step on it, pelt along, prevail, carry, play, scarper, go, unravel, lean, hie, die hard, pass, campaign, black market, hotfoot, persist, incline, draw, hightail it, bleed, be given, rush along, rush, tend, escape, ladder, melt, ply, operate, run for

9. raceverb

   to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others

   "We are racing to find a cure for AIDS"

   Synonyms:
   hotfoot, cannonball along, run, hasten, belt along, speed, rush, pelt along, hie, step on it, rush along, bucket along

10. race, rushverb

    cause to move fast or to rush or race

    "The psychologist raced the rats through a long maze"

    Synonyms:
    hotfoot, cannonball along, bucket along, induce, hurry, rush along, hie, hasten, belt along, speed, look sharp, run, pelt along, stimulate, festinate, step on it, rush

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Biology
   • Compete
   • Contest
   • Flow
   • Group
   • Move
   • Taxonomic Group

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. racenoun

   Synonyms:
   generation, lineage, stock, breed, family connection

2. racenoun

   Synonyms:
   tribe, family, clan

3. racenoun

   Synonyms:
   trial of speed, contest in running

4. racenoun

   Synonyms:
   course, career, progress

5. racenoun

   Synonyms:
   chase, pursuit

6. racenoun

   Synonyms:
   mill-race

7. raceverb

   Synonyms:
   run swiftly

8. raceverb

   Synonyms:
   contend in running

9. raceverb

   Synonyms:
   (Ornith.) Steamer-duck (micropterus brachypterus)

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. racenoun

   Associated words:
   ethnology, ethnography, ethnologist, ethnic, racial, ethnogeny, holethnos, holethnic, interracial

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "race":

   racial, carrera, raza, racecourse, breed, career, racing, errand, races, stroke, track, contest, bullfight, purebred, rasa, 'ra, ethnic, run, ethnicity, rush, running, course, careers, competition, ebp, competitions

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. RACE

   Synonyms:
   Rate Control versus Electrical Cardioversion

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1. Mike Kelly:

   Attempts by Democrats and the media to divide and define us by race are harmful. We need to elevate our level of discussion.

2. Simms:

   The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

3. Mick Mulvaney:

   I've talked with Kevin about this privately but not as much publicly, wouldn't it be great to force a Democrat running in a tight race to have to put up or shut up about voting for Nancy Pelosi eight weeks before an election ? That's a really, really good vote for us to force if we can figure out how to do it.

4. Harry Jackson:

   Advocates for critical race theory are even arguing that merit is racist, they argue that math is even racist, i am worried about the dumbing down of curriculum. I am worried about this forced equality. I don't think it works in other areas of the world. It certainly won't work in United States.

5. Penn State President Eric Barron:

   This gives a chance to see engineering in real life, to watch a race and see engineering play out, all sorts of opportunities we can use to promote STEM education, seeing Penn State on that car is a tremendous sense of pride, and this is just a perfect example of taking advantage of all our opportunities.