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What's "laps" mean and how's it usually used?

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Rebecca

Here, "laps" refers to the circuit of a track or swimming pool. If you run the distance of a track or swim the length of a pool, that's a lap! "Laps" is the countable form "lap" is the singular form. You can use it to say how many times you've run around or swam across something. Ex: I did 20 laps before getting out of the pool. Ex: How many laps did you run today? Ex: Whoever runs the fastest lap wins!

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