Race

Race has many meanings in English. It can mean:

• To go very fast – he raced to the store
• A competition between people - the race for the US presidency
• Racing, a competition about speed – the Tour de France is an important bicycle race
• Race (biology), a group smaller than a species. Members of different races can have sex and make babies, but they are separate (usually because they live in different places) - a large race of birds lives on this island
• Race (sociology), subdivision of the human species based on distinguishing physical characteristics that are passed on to succeeding generations.
• The human race means all people - the human race is destroying the environment