Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Sack Race |
Sack RaceNoun1. A novelty race in which competitors jump ahead with their feet confined in a sack. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Sack Race (A). A village sport in which each runner is tied up to the neck in a sack. In some cases the candidates have to make short leaps, in other cases they are at liberty to run as well as the limits of the sack will allow them. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sack Race (1896) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Urban campers line up for a sack race during campout recreation activities.Credit: Cathy Rodine. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
potato sack race | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sack race"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vrapim në thes. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | надбягване с чували. (various references) | |
German | sackhüpfen. (various references) | |
Greek | σακοδρομία. (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsákfutás (jumping in sacks). (various references) | |
Italian | corsa coi sacchi. (various references) | |
Manx | ratch saick. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acksay aceray.(various references) | |
Russian | бег в мешках. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trka u džakovima. (various references) | |
Spanish | carrera de sacos. (various references) | |
Swedish | säcklöpning. (various references) | |
Turkish | çuval yarışı. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-k-r-s" | |
-1 letter: caracks, carcase. | |
-2 letters: arecas, caesar, carack, cracks, crakes, creaks, sacker, scarce, screak. | |
-3 letters: acres, araks, areas, areca, asker, cacas, caeca, cakes, cares, carks, carse, crack, crake, creak, escar, eskar, races, racks, rakes, recks, sacra, saker, scare, serac. | |
-4 letters: aces, acre, arak, arcs, area, ares, arks, arse, asea, caca, cake, care, cark, cars, casa, case, cask, ceca, ears, eras, kaas, kaes, keas, race, rack, rake, rase, reck, recs, sack, sake, sark, scar, sear, sera. | |
-5 letters: aas, ace, arc, are, ark, ars, ask, car, ear, era, ers, kae, kas, kea, ras, rec, res, sac, sae, sea, sec, ser, ska. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-k-r-s" | |
+1 letter: crankcase. | |
+2 letters: carjackers, crankcases, racetracks. | |
+3 letters: backpackers, backscatter, safecracker. | |
+4 letters: backscatters, crackerjacks, cracklewares, racetrackers, safecrackers, safecracking. | |
+5 letters: backscattered, safecrackings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 63 6B 52 61 63 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01010010 01100001 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a c k   R a c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0063 006B 0052 0061 0063 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53676977252676971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
