relay race(a race between teams of runners, swimmers etc., in which the members of the team run, swim etc. one after another, each covering one part of the total distance to be run, swum etc.); relay; batoon; mantle(the mantle of somebody/something (literary) the role and responsibilities of an important person or job, especially when they are passed on from one person to another: The vice-president must now take on the mantle of supreme power. She will soon inherit her father’s mantle. OALD Alexander Demidov); estafette; baton(used in a relay race)
