P.E. Test -/ Track Terms

What is an ANCHOR?

• The final runner for each team in relay race. The anchor is typically the team's fastest runner.

• A hollow, rigid, one- piece tube thats passed between runners during a relay race.

• The final lap of a race.

• Receiving the baton from the previous runner without looking at the baton

What is a BATON?

• A hollow, rigid, one- piece tube that's passed between runners during a relay race.

• The final lap of a race

• Receiving the baton from the previous runner without looking at the baton

• The act of passing the baton between runners during a relay race.

What is a BELL LAP?

• The final lap of a race

• Receiving the baton from the previous runner without looking at the baton

• The act of passing the baton between runners during a relay race.

• Another name for a sprint race

What is a BLIND PASS?

• Receiving the baton from the previous runner without looking at the baton

• The act of passing the baton between runners during a relay race

• Another name for a sprint race

• Twenty-meter sections on each lane of track, inside which the baton must be passed during a relay race.

What is CHANGEOVER?

• The act of passing the baton between runners during a relay race

• Another name for a sprint race

• Twenty-meter sections on each lane of a track, inside which the baton must be passed during a relay race.

• The ending point of a race.

What is a DASH?

• Another name for a sprint race

• Twenty-meter sections on each lane of a track, inside which the baton must be passed during a relay race.

• The ending point of a race

• Bordered paths within which athletes must run during certain events.

What is a EXCHANGE ZONE?

• Twenty-meter sections on each lane of a track, inside which the baton must be passed during a relay race.

• The ending point of a race

• Bordered paths within which athletes must ran during certain events.

• An event in which four team members each run one leg of a race.

What is a FINISH LINE?

• The ending point of a race

• Bordered paths within which athletes must ran during certain events.

• An event in which four team members each run one leg of a race.

• Races in which competitors run at maximum or near- maximum speed for the entire race.

What is a LANE?

• Bordered paths within which athletes must ran during certain events.

• An event in which four team members each run one leg of a race.

• Races in which competitors run at maximum or near-maximum speed for the entire race.

• A track and field competition, typically consisting of a variety of events.

What is a RELAY?

• An event in which four team members each run one leg of a race.

• Races in which competitors run at maximum or near-maximum speed for the entire race.

• A track and field competition, typically consisting of a variety of events.

• A portion of a relay race completed by one runner.