Race with batons

The answer

RELAY

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

Used 20 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Pass on, as a message - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
• Team race - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Baton-passing event - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• 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

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• Put up with - ABIDE, used 183 times
• Connect with - TIETO, used 87 times
• Go with the flow - ADAPT, used 77 times
• Change with the times - ADAPT, used 72 times
• Went out with - DATED, used 71 times

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