starting block

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start·ing block (stär

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1. Sports

a. An apparatus that braces a runner's feet at the start of a race, consisting of two angled supports adjustably mounted on a rigid frame that is usually anchored to the track.

b. One of the raised platforms mounted at one end of a pool from which swimmers begin a race.

2. The beginning of a period of time or an endeavor.

starting block

(Individual Sports & Recreations / Athletics (Track & Field)) one of a pair of adjustable devices with pads or blocks against which a sprinter braces his feet in crouch starts

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starting block - block providing bracing for a runner's feet at start of a race

block - a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides); "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks"

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