Meaning & use

sprint

verb·Everyday

To run as fast as possible over a short distance.

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She sprinted the last hundred meters to win the race by a narrow margin.

He sprinted to catch the bus before the doors closed.

A note on using this word

In agile software teams, a sprint also means a fixed, short period of focused work, usually one to four weeks.

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