The egg-and-spoon race is a novelty running event in which each competitor balances an egg, or an egg-shaped substitute, on a spoon while moving toward a finish line without letting it fall. It is a long-standing fixture of school sports days and village fetes in Britain and other English-speaking countries, prized for rewarding steadiness over raw speed. Rules vary by organizer: some allow a hand to steady the spoon, others disqualify any touch, and a dropped egg typically costs the runner time retrieving it or restarting from the point of the fall.
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1. Egg-and-spoon race (Wikipedia)
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An egg-and-spoon race is a sporting event in which participants must balance an egg or similarly shaped item upon a spoon and race with it to the finishing line.
Rules
Competitors race either individually or in teams in the manner of a relay race.
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