sprints
- 1Plural of sprint.
She won both sprints at the regional track meet.
He wrote most of the novel in short sprints between hospital shifts.
Note
Three worlds share the plural. On the track, sprints are short races at top speed; in everyday talk people work in sprints, short bursts of effort; and Agile software teams divide a project into sprints of fixed length, each opened and closed by meetings. The phrase in sprints suits the last two, describing how work is paced rather than any single race.
- 2In British cycling, another name for tubulars, a type of bicycle tire.
The old club racer still glues his sprints on by hand before every season.
A puncture is a nuisance on sprints, because the whole tyre has to be peeled off the rim.
Similartubulars
Note
A British cyclist’s word, naming a set of tires rather than a series of races: sprints are tubulars, the kind glued onto the rim, so a puncture means peeling the whole tire away. Outside cycling talk a listener will hear short fast races first, so mention the bike, the rim or the glue nearby to keep the meaning clear.
sprints is a form of sprint
sprint, noun: A short race in which competitors go at top speed. Full entry
- Forms
- sprintsprints plural
- Spelling
- sprint → sprints: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with sprints, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.