The race also gives those of less than professional caliber the chance to scrape elbows with the best in the sport.

Almost weeping with relief, scraping her knees and elbows, she crawled forward, then stood up.

Then Anthony and a Seton Hall player went for the ball; Anthony dived for it - scraping his knees and elbows in the process - and flicked the ball ahead to Anderson Hunt.

A modern passion for safety, prodded by Federal guidelines, has solidly defeated the time-honored notion that playground fun comes with bruises and scraped elbows.

I stumbled twice, fell forward, scraping my knees and elbows.

I dived forward, flinging my body headlong into the defile ahead, scraping knees and elbows painfully on me rough sandstone.

When they first started they scraped their knees and elbows, so the master would harden up their skin by standing them close to a hot fire and rubbing in strong brine using a brush.

Yes, but--" "And he's always coming in with cuts and scraped elbows.

Scaurus fell, scraping elbows and knees and feeling the wind half knocked from him, almost as if he had run full-tilt into the gates himself.