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Definition of race : 1. A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
2. A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests.
3. A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
4. A root.
5. A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the of Alderney.
6. A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
7. Company; herd; breed.
8. Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
9. Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
10. Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
11. Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.
12. Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.
13. The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
14. The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.
15. To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
16. To raze.
17. To run a race with.
18. To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
19. To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.

Synonyms:

run away, incline, population, bucket along, washables, endure, minority, ethnic, persist, ply, scarper, come, battle, operate, lap, kinfolk, relay, subspecies, walk, head for the hills, wash drawing, play, heat, range, Aryan, zip, strife, populace, take to the woods, hunt, slipstream, blood, ladder, tug of war, rush along, black market, be quick on your feet, kindred, group, humankind, washout, sweepstakes, tend, passage, airstream, clock, function, work, travel rapidly, kinsfolk, full-blooded, sect, washing, sport, free-for-all, struggle, house, man, surge, furlong, competition, clip, lavation, raceway, engagement, deliver, execute, nation, step on it, hunt down, escort, scat, public life, enter, turn tail, track, draw, dead heat, track down, charge, mankind, color, conflict, pelt along, hotfoot, prevail, quicken, haul off, melt down, run for, corrivalry, bleed, heredity, pursuit, steeplechase, die hard, fly, folk, lam, the horses, move, ahead, escape, look sharp, society, be given, duel, clash, handicap, multiracial, backwash, dressage, outpace, flight, baton, face, expedite, conduct, pass, represent, lead, horseflesh, speed, induce, racecourse, stimulate, the blocks, aftermath, tribe, gymkhana, kin, fly the coop, drive, folks, laundry, warfare, nationality, cannonball along, ethnic minority, war, event, speed up, come in, contest, guide, wash, turf, regatta, flat race, hasten, dry wash, double, drop back, hightail it, career, ride, melt, culture, flow, fight, take up, course, striving, lean, feed, line of achievement, belt along, spurt, flat racing, shepherd, going, carry, black, festinate, community, go, racetrack, accelerate, ethnicity, unravel, bunk, generic, consort, meet, wake, chase, rivalry, campaign, bring, false start, hie, break away, extend, match

grade, set, ilk, denomination, kind, stamp, people, step, type, sort, line, genus, rank, family, classification, feather, species, make, order, persuasion, phylum, style, class, label, grain, genotype, series, category, brand, caste, level, clan, variety, stripe, taxonomy, mold, form, kingdom, degree, strain, designation

jog, gallop, scurry, scoot, scamper, canter, plunge, bound, hurry, lope, tear, rush, run, dart, trot, scramble, sprint, dash

descent, genealogy, breed, ancestry, lineage, stock, pedigree

Usage examples:

• Besides I want to race Andy Foger, and beat him, even if I don't win the prize. - "Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout or, The Speediest Car on the Road", Victor Appleton.
• In their Service, I began my political Race. - "The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 4", Samuel Adams.
• All the human race on one another's shoulders. - "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith.