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Idiotarod, the Glossary

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The Idiotarod is a shopping cart race in which teams of five or more "idiots" with a (sometimes modified) grocery store shopping cart run through the streets of a major metropolitan area.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 36 relations: Ann Arbor, Michigan, Asheville, North Carolina, Austin, Texas, Boston, Carts of Darkness, Caster, Chicago, Chiditarod, Cincinnati, Costume, Dallas, Denver, Grocery store, Idiot, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Iowa City, Iowa, Kinetic sculpture race, Los Angeles, Metropolitan statistical area, New York City, Phoenix, Arizona, Portland, Oregon, Racing, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle, SF Weekly, Shopping cart, St. Louis, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington, D.C., West Town, Chicago, Wife-carrying, Wok racing, Zoobomb.

  2. Culture of Cincinnati
  3. Events in Ottawa
  4. Events in Vancouver
  5. Outdoor games

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a college town and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States.

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Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Carts of Darkness

Carts of Darkness is a 2008 National Film Board of Canada documentary film by Murray Siple about a group of homeless men in the city of North Vancouver, who use shopping carts to collect bottles and cans to return for money and also race down the city's steep slope for thrills.

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Caster

A caster (or castor) is an undriven wheel that is designed to be attached to the bottom of a larger object (the "vehicle") to enable that object to be moved.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chiditarod

CHIditarod is a Chicago-based shopping cart-race and food drive.

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Cincinnati

Cincinnati (nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

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Costume

Costume is the distinctive style of dress and/or makeup of an individual or group that reflects class, gender, occupation, ethnicity, nationality, activity or epoch—in short, culture.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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Denver

Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Grocery store

A grocery store (AE), grocery shop (BE) or simply grocery is a foodservice retail store that primarily retails a general range of food products, which may be fresh or packaged.

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Idiot

An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person.

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Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, more commonly known as The Iditarod, is an annual long-distance sled dog race held in Alaska in early March.

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Iowa City, Iowa

Iowa City is the county seat and largest city of Johnson County, Iowa, United States.

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Kinetic sculpture race

Kinetic sculpture races are organized contests of human-powered amphibious all-terrain works of art. Idiotarod and Kinetic sculpture race are racing.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Metropolitan statistical area

In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the region.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Racing

In sports, racing is a competition of speed, in which competitors try to complete a given task in the shortest amount of time.

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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SF Weekly

SF Weekly is an online music publication and formerly alternative weekly newspaper founded in the 1970s in San Francisco, California.

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A shopping cart (American English), trolley (British English, Australian English), or buggy (Southern American English, Appalachian English), also known by a variety of other names, is a wheeled cart supplied by a shop or store, especially supermarkets, for use by customers inside the premises for transport of merchandise as they move around the premises, while shopping, prior to heading to the checkout counter, cashiers or tills.

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St. Louis

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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West Town, Chicago

West Town, northwest of the Loop on Chicago's West Side, is one of the city's officially designated community areas.

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Wife-carrying

Wife carrying (eukonkanto or, naisekandmine, kärringkånk) is a contest in which male competitors race while each carrying a female partner. Idiotarod and Wife-carrying are racing.

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Wok racing

Wok racing is a sport developed by the German TV host and entertainer Stefan Raab in which modified woks are used to make timed runs down an Olympic bobsleigh track. Idiotarod and wok racing are human-powered vehicles and racing.

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Zoobomb

Zoobomb is a weekly bicycling activity in Portland, Oregon, United States during which participants ride bicycles rapidly downhill in the city's West Hills.

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See also

Culture of Cincinnati

Events in Ottawa

Events in Vancouver

Outdoor games

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiotarod

Also known as Portland Urban Iditarod, Shopping cart race.