Drive and Race

Drive

Drive verb - To travel by a motorized vehicle.

Usage example: I'm going to drive across the country—want to come?

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Race and drive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Race" instead the word "Drive" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: driving, driven, driver, driveway

Race verb - To proceed or move quickly.

Usage example: was racing around trying to get everything done before her big trip to India

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Drive and race are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Drive" instead the word "Race" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: raced, racing, racist, racism, racer

long	long drive	long race
normal	normal drive	normal race
specific	specific drive	specific race
complete	complete drive	complete race
Other adjectives: single, powerful, actual, entire, main, capable, ancient, new, major, advanced, final, next, last, different.

point	drive point	race point
train	drive train	race train
way	drive way	race way
vehicle	drive vehicle	race vehicle
Other words: times, vehicles, enemies.

An episode of The Flintstones sees Fred and Barney drive to its prehistoric counterpart, "Indianrockolis", to enter its auto race; Indianrockolis was shown as being several hours' drive from Bedrock.

Source: Useful Notes / Indianapolis
Weathers' wife is voiced by Richard Petty's late wife Linda, and her vehicle is modeled off of the actual stationwagon the Petty family used to drive from race to race.

Source: Western Animation / Cars
You could also drive on one registered version track by doing the same trick with the Order Info screen (which depicts a race on Silver Wheels 2), but the game would crash after the race was over.

Source: Good Bad Bugs / Driving Game

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