Illustration: At a Japanese school sports day, an exhausted child reaches forward with a baton as a teammate starts sprinting ahead. The receiving child stretches one hand backward, eyes fixed down the track, while the baton touches the open palm.

リレー

riree

relay

Example sentences

走者そうしゃがリレーでバトンを渡わたさなければなりません。
A runner must pass the baton in a relay race.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
リレー用ようのバトンが１本足ほんたりないんです。
We’re one baton short for the relay.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
このトーチは、聖火せいかリレーと同おなじく1936年ねんのベルリンオリンピックから導入どうにゅうされた。
The torch and the relay were introduced at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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