time trial
noun
: a competitive event (as in auto racing) in which individuals are successively timed over a set course or distance
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He posted the second best lap in the time trials.
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Time-to-exhaustion tests produce much bigger changes than time trials: a common rule of thumb is that a 15 percent change in time to exhaustion corresponds to about a one percent in a time trial.
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Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2025
Ten subjects tested 0, 60, 75, 90, and 112.5 grams of carbohydrate per hour for two hours of cycling followed by a 30-minute time trial.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
Evenepoel is fresh off a good performance in the Tour de France, winning the first of the Tour's two time trials and finishing third in the overall.
—NBC News, 28 July 2024
Check out the relative effect sizes for time to exhaustion and time trial in these forest plots.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2025
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Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2025
Ten subjects tested 0, 60, 75, 90, and 112.5 grams of carbohydrate per hour for two hours of cycling followed by a 30-minute time trial.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
Evenepoel is fresh off a good performance in the Tour de France, winning the first of the Tour's two time trials and finishing third in the overall.
—NBC News, 28 July 2024
Check out the relative effect sizes for time to exhaustion and time trial in these forest plots.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2025
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“Time trial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time%20trial. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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