endurance
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- n the power to withstand hardship or stress
the marathon tests a runner's endurance - n a state of surviving; remaining alive
- The London Daily Express comments as follows on the dance endurance craze: " Miss Alma Cummings (of the United States) has been dancing since Christmas Day, 1783; has.
- Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John Richter, flying in an Army de Haviland over San Diego, broke all previous endurance records by staying up for nearly 45 hours.
- While great endurance runners, get their speed from long strides, sprinters get much of their speed from a fast stride rate and from raw power.