Baton-passing event

The answer

RELAY

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RELAY answer page.

Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• RELAYRACE (4 uses in xd)

Other clues for RELAY

Every other clue in this collection answered by RELAY, most used first.

• Pass along - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Pass on - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Kind of race - used 37 times, most recently in 2010
• Baton-passing race - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Type of race - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
• Race with a baton - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Track event - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Race with batons - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Pass on, as a message - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
• Team race - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Pass-the-baton race - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Four-person race - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Switching device - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Team racing event - used 7 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Courtroom event - TRIAL, used 71 times
• Court event - TRIAL, used 44 times
• Friars Club event - ROAST, used 30 times
• Alamogordo event - ATEST, used 25 times
• Historic event - FIRST, used 21 times
• Event host - EMCEE, used 17 times

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