bumping race

noun

1. (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front

Example Sentences

Bayern won by a nose over Toast Of New York, but it was the start of the 1 1/4-mile race that generated lots of opinions about whether Bayern should have been disqualified after veering left out of the gate and bumping race favorite Shared Belief.

From Los Angeles Times

We have already described the gay scene on the river bank at Ditton Corner in the May races, and one bumping race is very much like another; so the experiences of Mr. Binney, when he had steered in the previous Lent races, were not unlike those he underwent in the Mays.

From Project Gutenberg

I may at this point give a word of advice to a coxswain in a Bumping Race.

From Project Gutenberg

It is claimed that by practising for this race many of those who would not otherwise get much teaching are coached by competent people, and thus the standard of rowing is raised; but the opponents of the measure object, and as I think rightly, on the grounds that the average oar in the Lower Boats has quite enough rowing and racing as it is, and that even if more racing were needed, a bumping race is the very worst that can be rowed.

From Project Gutenberg

XVI.—That after every bump the boat bumping change places with the boat bumped, whatever be their orders before starting; also in a bumping race no boat can make more than one bump, but of four boats, A, B, C, D, should B bump C, then A may bump D, and the next race A and D change places with each other.

From Project Gutenberg