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(athletics) The most reliable runner in a relay team, usually the one that runs last.
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(US, of a sports team) To travel from town to town performing in front of small crowds. https://web.archive.org/web/20051201203635/http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/sports2000/numbers/173540.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070505133024/http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-original-celtics.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070929004147/http://www.jimthorpe.org/jim_thorpe_athlete.php http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/sports/soccer/to-us-soccer-team-home-field-is-a-many-changing-thing.html?_r=2
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A painting, or a musical composition, representing a battle.
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(sports) To perform a body check on someone.
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Alternative spelling of body check [(sports) To perform a body check on someone.]
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(video games) The act of jumping repeatedly to avoid enemy fire, especially in first-person shooters.
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A field officially set aside for the fighting of a knightly duel or tournament: the area enclosed by the lists.
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A walk that is taken regularly for good health and wellbeing.
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(transitive) To cover; to overspread.
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A battlefield; any place where a duel is fought.
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(prison slang) A book circulated between prisoners that is not part of the official prison library.
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The nearest part of a field (as of view or of combat).
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(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A long uphill road or trail without a resting place.
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To transport oneself from place to place.
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Alternative letter-case form of Grand Tour [(cycling) One of the three most prominent cycling races: either the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España.]
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Alternative spelling of hitchhike [To try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road, generally by either sticking out one's finger or thumb or holding a sign with one's stated destination.]
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(figuratively) The portion of a journey that ends at home.
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(figuratively, by extension) The final part of a distance or the final effort needed to finish.
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Alternative form of home stretch [The final part of a racecourse from the last curve to the finish line.]
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(sports) A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
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Abbreviation of looked but failed to see, a class of traffic accidents.
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(informal, transitive) To watch or read a large number of instalments of (a film, book, TV series, etc.) in one sitting.
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(intransitive) To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.
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A path or course, usually public, consisting of various obstacles or areas, designed for exercise purposes.
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A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
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(colloquial) Any official instructions to vacate an area.
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(slang) To move someone who has been arrested from police station to police station, thereby hindering release.
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Alternative form of rota (“old musical instrument”) [(Britain) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.]
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(advertising) Initialism of run of week.
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(Internet video games) To move to a previous position due to network lag, as if being held back by a rubber band.
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The route taken while running or skiing.
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The end-phase of a competition.
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(informal) One who is addicted to running.
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(climbing) A person who seconds; a person who climbs after the leader
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Alternative spelling of speedrun [(video games) A playthrough of a computer or video game in which the whole game or a select part of it, such as a single level, is played with the intent of completing it as quickly as possible, optionally with certain prerequisites.]
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(obsolete) An armed battle or conflict.
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The act of driving dangerously close behind another vehicle.
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The act of following someone.
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Alternative form of thru-hike [an end-to-end walk of a long-distance trail in one unbroken trek]
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to walk a long-distance trail end to end, in one unbroken trek
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Alternative form of tiki tour [(New Zealand) A tour that visits the attractions or points of interest in an area.]
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Alternative form of tiki tour [(New Zealand) A tour that visits the attractions or points of interest in an area.]
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Obsolete form of tournament. [(historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.]
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A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
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An extensive tour; figuratively, a wide-ranging or general survey.
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A circuit made by a medieval English sheriff to the courts of his shire.
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(historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
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(obsolete) Work turned on a lathe; turnery.
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(archaic) To take part in a tournament.
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(historical) One who took part in a medieval tourney.
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(dated) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
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(transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
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Obsolete form of tourney. [Tournament.]
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(obsolete) A bout; a hit; a turn.
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A trip by train in which one visits many locations along the way, especially if those locations are not major cities.
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