* Bobsledding – a winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, purpose-built ice-covered tracks in a steerable sled.

Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled.

The timed runs are combined to calculate the final score.

On record attempts controlled by the World Speed Sailing Record Council ( WSSRC ) competitors complete timed runs on a 500m or 1 nautical mile ( 1, 852m ) course.

Oldfield, with his manager Ernest Moross and front-man agent Will Pickens, crisscrossed the United States in a series of timed runs and match races, where he earned a reputation as a showman.

Modified Chinese woks are used to make timed runs down an Olympic bobsled track.

The competition will consist of three timed runs ( one run in each lane ), down Akron ’ s 989 ’ hill.

The timed runs are completed during the All American Soap Box Derby race week.

ChucK is a concurrent, strongly timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and iPhone / iPad.

Each level is timed and must be completed before the player runs out of oxygen.

Wok racing has been developed by the German TV host and entertainer Stefan Raab: Modified Chinese woks are used to make timed runs down an Olympic bobsled track.

The race generally runs from November to February ; and is timed to place the competitors in the Southern Ocean during the austral summer.

In arcade racing there are 60 medals available, 20 each for street racing, timed runs and cone challenges.

The player loses if his or her Shaman is killed and there are no remaining followers to resurrect her, if the Shaman is killed and there is no circle of resurrection, or the player runs out of time on timed levels.

Additionally, the course is meant to be physically demanding, with numerous tactical road marches, timed runs of varying distance from 2 miles to 5 miles, and Army Combatives training.

The show generally runs between 15 and 25 minutes and is timed to end exactly when the movie is scheduled to begin.

Often, too, B-24 Liberator bomb loads were dropped through the undercast by aid of the newly-installed radar bombing equipment, a far cry from the timed runs made on the Kiska main camp area using the Kiska volcano as an initial point when the target was closed in.

The six, and final levels are ' competition-based ' levels, where the player is judged on their performance in a number of timed runs.

The player has the same timed runs as in the Proquest mode, but there are no goals to complete, judges to impress or new items to gain.

As announced in Motor Sport: " The Opening Rally on April 10th will comprise an assembly at Cheltenham for lunch, followed by a run to Prescott and possibly timed runs up the hill, followed by tea at the Prescott club-house.

He was also very intelligent with an excellent sense of anticipation which made him very useful in defensive duties, and also enabled him to make well timed runs in the box.

The challenges include media callouts that require the player to perform a certain type of trick, timed runs, sled and snowmobile challenges, races that require the player to collect a certain number of objects within a set time, and challenges that require the player to beat a professional snowboarder.

Each trial is timed and the path taken by the rats is recorded.

The images are scanned, color timed and film recorded on the company's custom systems.

The show's star, John Barrowman, recorded two songs from the score (" I Was Born To Be Me " and " I'll Dress You In Mourning ") which were released as 45 RPM and CD singles timed to coincide with the London opening.

While being followed by two journalists in an airplane and using telegraph offices at the Mexican border and in La Paz, Dave Ekins recorded the first official timed run in 39 hours 56 minutes ( 39: 56 ) with a total distance of.

The building was closed for almost two years, to allow restoration work to be carried out, with the re-opening being timed to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of its first opening in 1898, and this is recorded on a plaque mounted just inside the main entrance.

The letter was postmarked before the landings and sent via airmail, but was timed to arrive too late to be useful.

Mac OS X has built-in support, via the Desktop & Screen Saver panel in its System Preferences, for cycling through a folder collection of images on a timed interval or when logging in or waking from sleep.

Somitogenesis is thought to occur via a “ clock and wavefront ” model, in which largely cell autonomous oscillations in a network of genes and gene products causes cells to oscillate between a permissive and a non-permissive state in a consistently timed fashion like a clock.

When planning the operation in Argentina it was decided that acquiring or manufacturing explosives in Spain would prove too difficult and so two explosive mines with timed detonators would be shipped to Spain via diplomatic pouch and would be delivered to the commando group in Spain.

After the timed incubation periods BICR / M1Rk, C6, and EMT6 / Ro showed invasion of PHF within a short period of time via gap junctions.

This could be done via tripwire or electrically timed shutter release attached to each individual camera.

Train services to Knottingley via Pontefract are timed to arrive and leave Kirkgate Station for connecting trains to Huddersfield, Halifax, Bradford, and Leeds, for the benefit of shoppers, tourists, and racegoers.

The Inside Intuit book, says ( page 22, 1984 ), "... in the first instance of the Usability Testing that later became standard industry practice, LeFevre recruited people off the streets ... and timed their Kwik-Chek ( Quicken ) usage with a stopwatch.

Rallying became very popular in Sweden and Finland in the 1950s, thanks in part to the invention there of the specialsträcka ( Swedish ) or erikoiskoe ( Finnish ), or special stage: shorter sections of route, usually on minor or private roads — predominantly gravel in these countries — away from habitation and traffic, which were separately timed.

As more sensitive photographic materials became available, cameras began to incorporate mechanical shutter mechanisms that allowed very short and accurately timed exposures to be made.

" ACF versus College Bowl " became the defining argument on the quizbowl Usenet group, as partisans of each format debated the merits of such College Bowl policies as timed matches, variable-value bonuses, single-team-per-region national tournaments, generally bad questions, and so forth.

These changes included a clock that counted time down to zero as was typical of other timed American sports, rather than upwards to 90 minutes as was traditional, a 35 yard line for offsides ( a rule designed to stop offside traps, prevalent at the time, and based on an FA experiment in 1925 between what became the offside rule at the time, or a 40-yard offside mark ) < REF > The Question: Why is the modern offside law a stroke of genius ?, The Guardian </ REF > rather than the usual half way line, and a shootout to decide matches that ended in a draw.

He would also provide a sound effect to signal the end of timed rounds: in earlier series this was a simple scream, but later became random phrases (" Leakage "), sometimes in regional accents (" That's it I'm turning the car around and we're going back to Dorset!

The sequel Rambo: First Blood Part II ( 1985 ), was perfectly timed for the 10th anniversary of the United States ' bailout from Vietnam ; that event garnered publicity for the new film, which also became a hit.

Often these responses were timed, and it became obvious that certain words could cause a considerable delay in the individual's response.