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.

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The course for the women’s C5 road time trial measured just half the length of the men’s, as BBC Sports reported. —

Jenny McCoy, SELF, 4 Sep. 2024 Taylor Knibb resigned her position in the road race to focus on the time trial and triathlon events, and Faulkner took her place. —

Tess Demeyer, The Athletic, 4 Aug. 2024 There are also lingering questions about optimal dosage (the study used 0.3 grams per kilogram of body weight) and timing (which was individualized based on blood tests to determine the peak response time, with a typical delay of roughly two hours between ingestion and time trial). —

Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2024 Ingebrigtsen raced the Olympic final like a time trial. —

Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 7 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for time trial