halfer
- noun
- /ˈhæfər/
- Jargon
- And Davey just ran his first race this past weekend, half marathon.
I know you were in Malibu and April ran that, the half marathon.
- I know you were in Malibu and April ran that, the half marathon.
- You are doing a half marathon, but it's still a violent midlife crisis.
- Jenna Crawford, who won the Rose Bowl half marathon, fantastically trained runner.
- But I mean, we've done some stuff that Clovis was me Paul and Alex Moore did half marathon row straight into Clovis.
Examples
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So today I'm attempting my first half marathon on the Steamboat Springs Greenway right now.
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And I'm running my half marathon in October.
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Next month is the half marathon that I'm running and my training was going really well.
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Running half a marathon once a week or pipe care three times a week.
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I'm getting, I'm going to do a half marathon in nine weeks.
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I know you were in Malibu and April ran that, the half marathon.
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But I mean, we've done some stuff that Clovis was me Paul and Alex Moore did half marathon row straight into Clovis.
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Last weekend, I completed my first halfer and felt a great sense of accomplishment.
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She trains every Saturday with a group of other halfers preparing for the upcoming race.
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After months of preparation, he finally became a dedicated halfer in his local running club.
Synonyms
A person who runs for sport, exercise, or in races
A person who takes part in races over long distances like marathons
A person who runs long races on roads like marathons
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Halfer comes from the simple parts half and -er, where half means 'one of two equal parts' and -er means 'a person who does something'. So a halfer is a casual name for someone who runs a half marathon, the shorter race of about 13.1 miles.