Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A foot-race in which the contestants wheel barrows, either with or without occupants; also, a form of gymnastic exercise in which one player takes the other by the feet and half carries him along while the one so held runs on his hands.
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Examples
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Gram and the girls therefore decided to give up going altogether, but we three boys at length harnessed old Sol into the express wagon and started; for we hoped to see the fireworks in the evening and perhaps the sack-race and wheelbarrow-race which had been set for afternoon.
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