footrace

noun

1. A race run on foot.

verb

1. (intransitive)To race on foot.

   “[T]he Moslems footraced around the Kaba three times at top speed, to demonstrate to the observant Koreish that they were in excellent physical condition; […]”

   “As we footraced back to the fort, I saw the lieutenant standing on top the walls watching this string of grown-up children flying along the path pursued by their barking and excited dogs.”

   “During Friday’s television spectacular C'onrad, Kerwin and Weitz footraced around the walls of their silo-like cabin in what they called the “Skylab 500,” effortlessly performing flips and handsprings.”

2. (transitive)To race (someone or something) on foot.

   “I could almost feel the clear spool when the game turned, headed along the beach, and I footraced him for line, and won.”

   “Next Representative McCarthy promises to footrace a Manhattan bus to prove that transportation is snarled.”

   “And they footraced the orienteering champion of Sweden in a sampling of a new sport.”