handicap (race)
1Handicap race — A Handicap race is a horse race where horses carry different weights. A better horse will carry a heavier weight in order to make the race more fair. The purpose of this is to make the races more interesting to bet on, as although one is less… …
2handicap race — lengvatinės lenktynės statusas T sritis Kūno kultūra ir sportas apibrėžtis Grupinės lenktynės, kuriose įvairaus parengtumo sportininkai startuoja iš skirtingų starto vietų, suteikdami savo silpniesiems varžovams tam tikrą lengvatą, pvz., tam… …
3Bridges Handicap Race — The Bridges Handicap Race is a traditional running race held in Westminster, London at 12:30 on the second Wednesday of every month. The race, often known as The Lensbury , is run over a course of 2.3 miles, and runners are given handicap times… …
4race — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. onrush, advance; competition; sprint, dash; stream; channel, millrace, tide, river; career; family, clan, tribe; people, ethnic group. v. rush, career; hasten; compete; speed. See velocity, ancestry,… …
5handicap — noun 1》 a condition that markedly restricts a person s ability to function physically, mentally, or socially. 2》 a disadvantage imposed on a superior competitor in sports such as golf and horse racing in order to make the chances more equal.… …
6handicap — [17] The word handicap originally denoted a sort of game of chance in which one person put up one of his or her personal possessions against an article belonging to someone else (for example one might match a gold watch against the other’s horse) …
7handicap — [17] The word handicap originally denoted a sort of game of chance in which one person put up one of his or her personal possessions against an article belonging to someone else (for example one might match a gold watch against the other’s horse) …
8handicap — Synonyms and related words: Derby, Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, allowance, atrophy, bacterial disease, bale, bar, barrier, bear hard upon, birth defect,… …
9handicap — hand i*cap (h[a^]n d[i^]*k[a^]p), n. [From hand in cap; perh. in reference to an old mode of settling a bargain by taking pieces of money from a cap.] 1. An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the… …
10handicap — [han′dē kap΄] n. [orig. a game in which forfeits were drawn from a cap or hat < hand in cap] 1. a) a race or other competition in which difficulties are imposed on the superior contestants, or advantages given to the inferior, to make their… …
