sprint
noun/sprɪnt/
/sprɪnt/
- a race in which the people taking part run, swim, etc. very fast over a short distance
- a 100-metre sprint
- the world sprint champion
Extra ExamplesTopics Sports: other sportsc1- Jamaica won the gold in the sprint relay.
- Olympic sprint champion Marion Jones
- the 100-metre and 200-metre sprint double
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- quick
- short
- final
- …
- break into
- make
- race
- relay
- finish
- …
- in a sprint
- sprint for
- [usually singular] a short period of running, swimming, etc. very fast
- The Moroccan came out best in a frantic sprint for the line.
- a sprint for the bus
- She won in a sprint finish.
Extra Examples- Sato just pipped the Kenyan runner in a sprint finish.
- The runners broke into a sprint a few hundred yards from the finish.
- This car could comfortably outpace its rivals in a sprint.
- It was a sprint for the finishing line.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- quick
- short
- final
- …
- break into
- make
- race
- relay
- finish
- …
- in a sprint
- sprint for
- a fixed period of time during which specific tasks must be completed on a project, especially in software development
- The team achieved a huge amount during this sprint.
Word Originlate 18th cent. (as a dialect term meaning ‘a bound or spring’): related to Swedish spritta.
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