Short-distance

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to travel between places relatively close together.

    "I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market."

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"The Quarter Horse is an iconic horse of the American Wild West, well-suited for rodeo, cattle herding, agricultural work, and short-distance races."

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