Synonyms for race
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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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. race

   Synonyms:
   course, pursuit, career, family

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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 SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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)

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1. racenoun

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

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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, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. RACE

   Synonyms:
   Rate Control versus Electrical Cardioversion

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1. Mitch McConnell:

   I looked into Herschel Walker's record -- I'm entirely comfortable with him, we believe he starts his race dead even, pretty unusual against the incumbent anywhere in the country. And I think when you see his finance report, it'll be impressive as well.

2. Tudor Dixon:

   A successful weekend honestly is just to bring any money in right now. This race is going to be a very expensive race, we've already had quite a few donors commit to us, that's a huge deal in a race against someone like Gretchen Whitmer who has so much support. She was just given another nod by President Biden.

3. Jerry Garcia:

   What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

4. Abigail Spanberger:

   In our race, I certainly want people to vote for me.

5. Nova Spivack:

   Best-case scenario is that the little library is fully intact, sitting on a nice sandy hillside on the moon for a billion years. In the distant future it might be recovered by our descendants or by a future form of intelligent life that might evolve long after we're gone, from the DNA and the cells that we included, Nova Spivack could clone us and regenerate the human race and other plants and animals.