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| baton |
a hollow cylinder that is carried and passed from one runner to the next in a relay race. [1/3 definitions] |
| blade |
the metal runner on an ice skate. [1/4 definitions] |
| home plate |
a flat slab of hard rubber at which the batter stands in a baseball game. The base runner must touch home plate in order to score a run. |
| hurdle |
a barrier over which a runner or horse must leap in the course of certain races. [1/4 definitions] |
| lane |
a marked route for traffic going in one direction, as for a line of cars on a highway or for a single swimmer or runner in a race. [1/4 definitions] |
| relay race |
a race between two or more teams in which each runner completes part of the race and then is replaced or relieved by another team member. |
| runner |
A runner is someone or something that runs. [3/4 definitions] |
| safe |
of a runner in the sport of baseball, having reached a base without being put out by one of the other team's fielders. [1/5 definitions] |
| superlative |
"Superlative" is a word we use in grammar. Words like "best," "smallest," "biggest," and "fastest" are adjectives in their superlative form. When we use this form of an adjective, or an adverb, we are talking about the highest degree or level of something. If a certain game is the best, then there is no game that is better. If a runner is the "fastest," then there is no runner that is faster. |
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