Swedish relay

noun

A relay race in which members of a team take turns running progressively longer parts of a course. The first member runs 100 meters, the second 200 meters, the third 300 meters, and the fourth 400 meters, equalling one kilometer in total.

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Meanings

nounSwedish relay (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA relay race in which members of a team take turns running progressively longer parts of a course. The first member runs 100 meters, the second 200 meters, the third 300 meters, and the fourth 400 meters, equalling one kilometer in total.

    只今の１年生女子スウェーデンリレーの結果…

    2024 [2020], Kashikaze, translated by Diana Taylor, edited by Tomoko Nagano and Alanna Ruse, I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl, volume 2, Kodansha, translation of ロンリーガールに逆らえない [Ronrī Gāru ni Sakaraenai] (in Japanese), →ISBN, page 130
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    The only consolation for the Germans was the so-called Swedish relay race, which they won against the team of the Illinois Athletic Club, which arrived as third.

    1925 October 7, The Christian Science Monitor, volume 17, number 265, Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, via Internet Archive, The World's Great Capitals: The Week in Berlin, page 16

    In the years that followed, Gunde [Svan] and [Thomas] Wassberg won several world championship and Olympic medals skiing together on the Swedish relay team.

    2001, Wayne Wilson, “Gunde Svan”, in Great Athletes, Salem Press, via EBSCOhost, →ISBN, →OCLC

Translations

Czech švédská štafeta
  • švédská štafetatype of relay race
Danish 1000 meter stafet
  • 1000 meter stafettype of relay race
Dutch Zweedse estafette
  • Zweedse estafettetype of relay race
Estonian Väike-Rootsi teatejooks
  • Väike-Rootsi teatejookstype of relay race
Finnish ruotsalaisviesti
  • ruotsalaisviestitype of relay race
French relais suédois
  • relais suédoistype of relay race
German Schwedenstaffel
  • Schwedenstaffeltype of relay race
Icelandic 1000 metra boðhlaup
  • 1000 metra boðhlauptype of relay race
Italian staffetta svedese
  • staffetta svedesetype of relay race
Japanese スウェーデンリレー
  • スウェーデンリレー (Suwēden rirē)type of relay race
Norwegian Bokmål 1000 meter stafett
  • 1000 meter stafetttype of relay race
Polish sztafeta szwedzka
  • sztafeta szwedzkatype of relay race
Spanish relevo sueco
  • relevo suecotype of relay race
Swedish svensk stafett
  • svensk stafetttype of relay race
Turkish İsveç bayrak yarışı, İsveç bayrak koşusu
  • İsveç bayrak yarışıtype of relay race
  • İsveç bayrak koşusutype of relay race
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APA

Swedish relay. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Swedish%20relay

MLA

“Swedish relay.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Swedish%20relay. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Swedish relay,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Swedish%20relay.

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