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翻訳と辞書　辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ] スポンサード リンク Egg-and-spoon race ： ウィキペディア英語版 Egg-and-spoon race 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. At many primary schools an egg-and-spoon race is staged as part of the annual Sports Day, alongside other events such as the sack race and the three-legged race. ==History== The earliest recorded usage in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' is in an article of 8 September 1894 featured in ''The Daily News'': "the gentlemen had a turn in the egg-and-spoon race, in which the competitors had to punt with one hand and balance an egg on a spoon with the other". An earlier origin in colonial USA has been claimed. Egg-and-spoon races formed part of village celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, alongside the tug of war and blindfold wheelbarrow races.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Why Wiltshire's towns, villages and schools are looking back to look forward to the Queen's Jubilee )〕 A set of turned and stained wooden eggs and spoons designed for racing and dating to the 1920s forms part of the Good Time Gallery of the Museum of Childhood in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Egg and spoon race set )〕 It reached Canada by at least 1922, the first time it was mentioned in ''The Globe''. By the 1930s, the phenomenon of the parents' egg-and-spoon race was sufficiently well-established to be satirized in ''Punch''.〔 Races were held among the staff of Trinity College, Cambridge until the 1950s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Trinity College Staff Sports and Social Club )〕 Egg-and-spoon races were held as part of the celebrations for both the 1977 Silver Jubilee and 2012 Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. In 2012, the British Council promoted the egg-and-spoon race as a suitable event for "English days", alongside the celebration of Charles Dickens and of the Victorian era.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=English days with the British Council )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Egg-and-spoon race」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.