endurance race

noun

1. an auto race over a closed course designed to test the endurance of both driver and vehicle and won by the car that covers the longest distance in an arbitrarily allotted time or by the car that is first to cover a predetermined long distance.

Example Sentences

That’s the level the Navy would only put as green flag, though the Navy’s flag system is more interested in safe training conditions than in safe conditions for endurance races, inherently more intense than most types of training.

From Outside Online

You’ve got a nearly inexhaustible supply, but it can only be delivered in a trickle, so it’s ideal for long endurance races.

From Outside Online

In its second year, Last Skier Standing drew 25 percent more participants, each of whom paid $125 for the opportunity to push themselves beyond the breaking point in one of the weirdest endurance races in America.

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Almost from the first it became an obstacle race, a hurdle race, a long-distance endurance race, all in one.

From Project Gutenberg

It might have been different, probably would have, in an endurance race, for Indian horses are swift only in short runs.

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