race

A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.

Several horses ran in a horse race: the first one to reach the finishing post won.

The race to cure cancer

Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.

The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.

Hence the rapid race / Of light, and lustre from th' effusive sun

A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.

Many problems of oscillations and races are solved by this arrangement.

Because a race by definition depends on the timing being just wrong, you could test your program any number of times, never observe any misbehavior, and still have a user run into the problem.¶ This occurrence is not just a theoretical possibility: Real programs have race bugs and real users have encountered them, sometimes with consequences that have literally been fatal.

A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.

A race of wicked acts / Shall flow out of my anger, and o’erspread / The world’s wide face[.]

An offensive war is made, which is unjust in the aggressor; the prosecution and race of the war carrieth the defendant to invade the ancient patrimony of the first aggressor, who is now turned defendant; shall he sit down, and not put himself in defence?

A fast-moving current of water.

Here are in these seas two dangerous races, the one called St. Alban's, the other Portland Race.

The existing analysis and program for the propeller-rudder interaction has been updated incorporating all the improvements concerned with the propeller loading distribution, including that associated with the fact that the rudder is immersed in the race of the propeller.

To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).

The drivers were racing around the track.

Honesty raced up six lengths in front of Wandering Minstrel, turned, then raced past for the second, and lost his place at the hedge; some work followed to the plantation, but Honesty was always the faster in the racing stretches, and won easily.

To compete against in a race (contest).

I raced him to the car, but he was there first, so he got to ride shotgun.

[…]a fresh fox popped out of a pit, and they raced him to Cherrington, where hounds were stopped at dark[…]

To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.

As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door.

Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.

To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.

"My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built."

He put the transmission into drive and pressed the gas. The engine raced and the motor home rocked, gently, but did not move forward.

A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):

The Canadian race is one of the most vigorous on the globe.

Felovves, they ſhall never more us vvithſtonde, / For I ſe them all drovvned in the raſe of Irlonde.

A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):

Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.

The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are considered part of the same Mongoloid race.

A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):

The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.

We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them—they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors.

A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):

A treaty was concluded between the race of elves and the race of men.

There are two distinct races of gods known to Norse mythology[.]

A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species

[I]nnumerable popingayes of ſundry kindes are found chattering in the groues of thoſe fenny places. […] For in the raſe of this large lande, Colonus [Christopher Columbus] him ſelfe brought and ſent to the courte a greate number of euery kynde, the which it was lawfull for all the people to beholde, and are yet dayly browght in like manner.