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noun
- 1. a race between rowing crews.
- 2. a person's face. rhyming slang British
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The Boat Race is an annual set of rowing races between the Cambridge University Boat Club and the Oxford University Boat Club, traditionally rowed between open-weight eights on the River Thames in London, England.
The Boat Race is a rowing race between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club. It is rowed annually each Spring on the Thames in London. Henley Royal Regatta, held every year on the River Thames is one of several prestigious British events.
- What Is The Boat Race?
- The Clubs
- The Championship Course
- The Women’s Boat Race
The Boat Race is an annual event between crews from the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. The Men’s Boat Race was first raced in 1829 and is now one of the world’s oldest and most famous amateur sporting events. The Women’s Boat Race first took place in 1927. For every student athlete in one of the eight crews competing, being p...
Fans of The Boat Race from around the world usually pick one team to support! Cambridge University Boat Club wears the light ‘Duck Egg’ blue, whilst the Oxford crews wear dark blue. The teams compete in eight-oared rowing boats, each steered by a cox who sits in the stern or back of the boat. The cox is the only crew member who faces in the directi...
The Boat Race course, known as the Championship Course is 4 miles, 374 yards or 6.8 km long. It stretches between Putney and Mortlake on the River Thames in South West London. The crew who wins the coin toss before The Boat Race choses which side (or station) they will race on. The stations are known as Middlesex and Surrey, with advantages and dis...
The Women’s Boat Race first took place in 1927 and it was at this stage, not a side-by-side race but a contest of time and style. From 1935 the women’s races became a side by side contest, held alternately on the River Cam in Cambridge or The Isis in Oxford. In the 1977 The Women’s Boat Race moved to Henley-on-Thames where the event was well suppor...
Boat race. Meaning. Cockney rhyming slang for face. Examples. Stupid am I! Look into my boat and say that again! Where did it originate?
Boat race definition: a rowing event held annually in the spring, in which an eight representing Oxford University rows against one representing Cambridge University on the Thames between Putney and Mortlake. See examples of BOAT RACE used in a sentence.
What's a boat race? The Guardian (2015) The country was ablaze with music festivals, cricket, boat races. The Guardian (2021) Hitlist recalls five humdingers from boat race history. Times, Sunday Times (2008) I think you must mean boat race. Times, Sunday Times (2017) But the biggest crowd-puller is the boat race. The Sun (2013)
On Easter Sunday, the Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities sets off down the River Great Ouse at Ely, Cambridheshire, in a tradition that dates back almost 200 years.
