time trial

noun

: a competitive event (as in auto racing) in which individuals are successively timed over a set course or distance

Examples of time trial in a Sentence

He posted the second best lap in the time trials.

Recent Examples on the Web

Ten subjects tested 0, 60, 75, 90, and 112.5 grams of carbohydrate per hour for two hours of cycling followed by a 30-minute time trial. —Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025

Evenepoel is fresh off a good performance in the Tour de France, winning the first of the Tour's two time trials and finishing third in the overall. —NBC News, 28 July 2024

Check out the relative effect sizes for time to exhaustion and time trial in these forest plots. —Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2025

Fifty-one cyclists and triathletes completed a series of tests consisting of two hours of moderately hard cycling followed by a 20-kilometer all-out time trial, while consuming anywhere from 0 to 120 grams of carbohydrate per hour, in 10-gram increments. —Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1857, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for time trial

• denial
• mistrial
• posttrial
• pretrial
• retrial
• dial
• rial
• thiol
• vial
• sensorial
• supervisorial