torch race

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torch race - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Torch race \Torch race\
     A race by men carrying torches, as in ancient Greece.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

torch race - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  torch race
      n 1: (ancient Greece) in which a torch is passed from one runner
           to the next