Iditarod is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Iditarod in a sentence
Iditarod meaning
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an annual sled dog race held in Alaska, USA.
Synonyms of Iditarod
Using Iditarod
- The main meaning on this page is: The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an annual sled dog race held in Alaska, USA.
- Useful related words include: cross country.
- In the example corpus, iditarod often appears in combinations such as: the iditarod, iditarod trail, iditarod officials.
Context around Iditarod
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Iditarod
- In this selection, "iditarod" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, paid, plus, day, trail, officials and itself stand out and add context to how "iditarod" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also the iditarod saw its and awarded the iditarod s golden. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "iditarod" sits close to words such as abbeys, abundances and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with iditarod
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Have you guys seen the Iditarod before? (7 words)
Kristy Berington races the Iditarod with her twin sister Anna. (10 words)
Schooby is part of our “Dog of the Day” Iditarod series. (11 words)
Two dogs from separate teams have died while competing in the 2024 Iditarod, and the first deaths during the race across Alaska since 2019 has prompted the call to end the race from an animal rights group. (37 words)
Leaving the prior checkpoint of Rohn, mushers steeled themselves for what Iditarod officials described as the worst moguls in the history of the race, comparing the stretch to a washboard with 4-foot-high bumps. (35 words)
The Iditarod Trail Invitational, a bike, ski and foot race, travels from Knik Lake near Anchorage to the interior community of McGrath, continuing to the Bering Sea before reaching the trail’s conclusion in Nome. (35 words)
Have you guys seen the Iditarod before? (7 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Iditarod itself also has varying levels of coverage through its paid Iditarod Insider subscriptions.
The checkpoint of Shaktoolik has been awarded the Iditarod’s Golden Clipboard Award for the 2020 race, a distinguished recognition voted on by the Iditarod Official Finishers Club.
Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski poses with last year’s Iditarod champion, Brent Sass, before the ceremonial start of the race.
Attentive sled dogs await the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race's ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday, March 4, 2023.
It’s the smallest group of teams in the Iditarod’s history, but it’s a pretty competitive one.
Kristy Berington races the Iditarod with her twin sister Anna.
Leaving the prior checkpoint of Rohn, mushers steeled themselves for what Iditarod officials described as the worst moguls in the history of the race, comparing the stretch to a washboard with 4-foot-high bumps.
The Iditarod Trail Invitational, a bike, ski and foot race, travels from Knik Lake near Anchorage to the interior community of McGrath, continuing to the Bering Sea before reaching the trail’s conclusion in Nome.
Also, the Iditarod saw its first two dog fatalities during the race since 2019.
Have you guys seen the Iditarod before?
It's also a race she has used twice to qualify for the Iditarod.
Plus, Iditarod officials talk trail conditions ahead of the ceremonial start in Anchorage this weekend.
Schooby is part of our “Dog of the Day” Iditarod series.
The Iditarod did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Two dogs from separate teams have died while competing in the 2024 Iditarod, and the first deaths during the race across Alaska since 2019 has prompted the call to end the race from an animal rights group.
We are thrilled to unveil this new fundraising initiative in conjunction with the construction of a new Finish Arch which will make its debut for the the 2025 Iditarod.
Musher Matthew Failor and his sled dog team crossing the Bering Sea toward a prior checkpoint, Koyuk, during the 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
The first Iditarod disqualification for drug use came in 2012, when 38th place finisher Matt Giblin tested positive for marijuana.
The Yukon Quest is a smaller and younger race than the Iditarod.
What used to be a given in Alaska — enough snow and ice to run the Iditarod and a slew of other sled dog races without much worry — is now fraught with perennial uncertainty.
Common combinations with iditarod
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: