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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (ancient Greece) in which a torch is passed from one runner to the next; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Torch race \Torch race\
   A race by men carrying torches, as in ancient Greece.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

torch race
    n 1: (ancient Greece) in which a torch is passed from one runner
         to the next