Plural of footrace; multiple running competitions or contests between participants on foot.
From footrace + s (plural suffix). The plural form refers to the various distances and formats of running competitions.
Every culture has had footraces—they're so fundamental to human competition that even tiny isolated societies have them, suggesting that racing on foot is something deeply wired into human nature, perhaps as a way to test fitness for survival.
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