Short footrace
The crossword clue "Short footrace" is answered by DASH, a 4-letter entry. Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DASH
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DASH answer page.
Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- HUNDREDYARDDASH (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for DASH
Every other clue in this collection answered by DASH, most used first.
- Sprint - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Short race - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Track event - used 28 times, most recently in 2020
- 100-yard race - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Punctuation mark - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Recipe amount - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
- Short run - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Elan - used 16 times, most recently in 2001
- Inexact recipe amount - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
- Quick race - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Verve - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Hyphen's cousin - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
- Recipe guesstimate - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Morse "T" - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Pinch - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Short sprint - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Small amount - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Spirited quality. - used 8 times, most recently in 1966
- Vigor. - used 8 times, most recently in 1977
- 100-meter race, e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Hyphen's kin - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Morse code symbol - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Morse morsel - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- T, in Morse code - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- 100-yard race, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Fun run - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Pizazz - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Quick run - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Run fast - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Small amount of salt - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Sprinter's event - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Track-meet event - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Short skirt - MINI, used 149 times
- Get ready, for short - PREP, used 123 times
- And others, for short - ETAL, used 111 times
- Short distance - STEP, used 100 times
- Shoulder muscle, for short - DELT, used 87 times
- Cut short - CROP, used 74 times
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