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12:49 Dec 7, 2016 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Tony M France Local time: 12:59 | ||||||
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4 +9 | running round the mat |
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3 +2 | run around the gym floor once or twice |
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running round the mat Explanation: It means running around the circumference of the mat (which is used as the 'ring' in a training gym) — i.e. on the firm gym floor, instead of on the squishier mat. In fact, it would be harder work running on the mat (think running on a sandy beach!), so that could indeed have been the author's intention here; but I somehow doubt it, as the mat being smaller, the distance would be marginally shorter; the use of the preposition 'of' does however raise that possibility, as if one said 'a lap of the stadium', one would mean running round inside the stadium (not round the outside of it!) Anyway, the intention is to express a rather small distance that ought not to leave them breathless... |
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