How to Use sack race in a Sentence

sack race

noun
  • Who wants to do a potato sack race?
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Play keg bowling, run the sack race, and wear your flannel for a chance to win a prize.
    — Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Enjoy the vintage cider press, gold panning, machine demos, hayrides, food trucks, hay maze, sack races and more.
    — Sarah Kuta, The Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The free event also features food trucks, games for the kids (musical chairs, sack races) and live music.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The only game more classic than football on Thanksgiving, might be the sack race.
    — Carly Breit, Country Living, 22 Sep. 2022
  • After the chores, guests can take part in frontier games that include sack races, tossing washers and marbles.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 8 Mar. 2020
  • Guests also can enjoy carnival games like tic-tac-toe, ring toss, can smash, sack races and a hula hoop station.
    — Houston Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Hopefully, Kizer will slow down the Ravens' sack race by getting the ball out faster this week.
    — Ted Crow, cleveland.com, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Throw a summer party with old-fashioned games, including three-legged races, horseshoes and sack races.
    — Arizona Republic, azcentral, 1 July 2019
  • Either way, Mustoe wonders out loud off-air whether her outfit belongs in the sack race at a school sports day.
    — Stuart James, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
  • Participate in a pumpkin pie or donut eating contest, the pumpkin roll, the egg toss and sack races.
    — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Participate in a pumpkin pie or donut eating contest, the pumpkin roll, the egg toss and sack races.
    — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025
  • For instance, the Chiefs did a potato sack race last year after a Travis Kelce touchdown.
    — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 27 Mar. 2018
  • There’s also potato sack races, tug-o-war and roaming performers in the Kids Zone.
    — Annie Alleman, Lake County News-Sun, 3 May 2018
  • Cisneros bounced through the sack race, winning iHeartMedia fourth place in its division for the event.
    — Alia Malik, San Antonio Express-News, 2 June 2018
  • Easter egg hunts, egg painting, food trucks, sensory activities, sack races and more.
    — The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Games for kids include a straw pillow fight, candy in the straw scramble, three-legged race, sack race, dizzy stick race, barrel race and water balloon toss.
    — Staff Report, Daily Southtown, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Competitions include a pie-eating contest, hula hoop contest, sack races and more.
    — courant.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Hit up a local store for games like plastic horseshoes, cornhole, wiffle ball and more, or get creative with your games with stuff around the house, like a potato sack race.
    — Alex Darus, cleveland, 2 June 2020
  • The events included tug of war, a potato sack race, a soccer shoot-out, a twerk contest and a giant game of Connect 4.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • Other guests can enjoy face painting, an Easter egg hunt, crafts, a bunny hop sack races and photos with costumed characters.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Remember players from both teams participating in sack races, hog calling, egg throwing and cow milking?
    — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 27 June 2019
  • Check out this page of outdoor game ideas, from lawn bowling and potato sack race bags to a kiddie archery set and the classic Hasbro Twister Game.
    — oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2020
  • For those not participating in the egg painting contest, there will be craft stations, face painting, a bunny hop sack race, a DJ and more.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Until then, here’s to more stealthy micro-dosing, demented sack races, disturbing visions, and jaw-dropping confessions.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 June 2023
  • Even the potato-sack race, which Jessica unexpectedly wins for her team with a series of cartwheels, seems to be helping everyone blow off steam!
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Plus, don’t miss Bunny Land, where there will be an Easter bunny, petting zoo, pony rides, Easter egg hunt, egg race and potato sack race.
    — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Games and activities include bobbing for apples, a contest to guess the weight of the pumpkin, sack races, checkers, stilts, ring toss, soap carving, bowling, a scavenger hunt and more.
    — Courant Community, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Beloved competitive camp activities like floaty races, tug-of-war and potato sack races -- with some activities hosted by artists on the lineup -- kept attendees on their toes by day.
    — Morena Duwe, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Highlights include an egg hunt, giant Easter egg painting, bunny hop sack races, face painting, giveaways and photos with the Easter Bunny.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2024

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