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time trial
cycling
Also known as: course contre la montre
time trial, (“race against the watch”), in bicycle racing, a form of competition in which individual cyclists or teams are sent out at intervals to cover a specified distance on a road course. The contestant with the fastest time for the distance wins. The individual time trial is distinctive in that its participants ride alone and widely separated from one another, and any of the cooperative activities used by two or more riders in other kinds of bicycle racing are forbidden. However, in team time trials, members of a team of two to four riders may pace, or assist, each ...(100 of 305 words)