Race dream meaning is explained below using 23 different sources. Each interpretation is shown with its source.

Interpretation 1 — Zolar

lucky numbers: 13-14-16-41-48-50

dog, a: wil have mastery over your enemies if you learn to pace yourself.

marathon: must answer for misdeed you deemed an accident.

running a: must preserve your energy if you desire long-term success.

and winning: commercial undertakings of import wil be consummated.

losing: wil have many competitors in your affairs.

friends: wil stand by you, whether you win or lose.

jockey, in a: wil gain in stature just for finishing the race.

member of family: are demanding too little of yourself.

others: are being deceived by unsportsman like behavior.

track, running on a: repeat old patterns for success; others aspire to them.

Source: Zolar’s Book of Dreams Numbers and Lucky Days • Author: Zolar

Interpretation 2 — Silvana Amar

Are you competing or running from or to something? In order to have a good understanding of this dream you should consider those factors.

If you are simply running, it may be an indication that you need to slow down in your everyday life.

If you are competing, you need to consider your competitive drive and realistically look at the current challenges.

If you are running in a race and win, your unconscious may be expressing confidence that you may or may not feel in the wakened state. Running in your dreams may also symbolize the energy levels, the strength, or the force that you have to get through life.

Source: The Bedside Dream Dictionary • Author: Silvana Amar

Interpretation 3 — Martha Clarke

If you always are in a hurry, this dream can be an allegorical representation of life. It also reveals the need to compare yourself to others; a very competitive personality. By slowing down you are likely to get more. The slow-moving tortoise beats the impulsive hare. It may also indicate that you are taking too many risks or spending excessive energy.

If you are running or driving a car, the dream states that you will soon receive news.

If you win the race, that news will be wonderful.

Source: The Big Dictionary of Dreams • Author: Martha Clarke

Interpretation 4 — Pagan - Anonymous

If you are simply running in your dream, it may be an indication that you need to slow down in your every day life. Running a foot race in your dreams show that you have an enemy who is a threat to your possessions and is envious of your acquisitions or achievements.

If you win the race it means you will quickly overcome your adversary. Running in your dreams may also symbolize the energy levels, the strength, or the force that you have to get through life.

Source: Tryskelion Dream Interpretation • Author: Pagan - Anonymous

Interpretation 5 — Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett

To watch any kind of race being run is a form of obstacle dream in that it predicts success in whatever concerns you most, providing that in your dream you bet on (or rooted for) the winner.

If you dreamed of running in a race yourself, you can expect an exciting new offer whether you won or lost A dream featuring race relations signifies progress if the climate was pleasant but disappointment if it was not

Source: The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams • Author: Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett

Interpretation 6 — Klaus Vollmar

This image almost always refers to career issues, addressing primarily the question of winner and loser, because such dreams usually deal with emotional energies. Are you running ahead? Are others behind you? Or are you running behind the pack? Different people taking part in a competitive race in the dream represent the many different sides of the Self.
Source: Little Giant Encyclopedia • Author: Klaus Vollmar

Interpretation 7 — Dream Explanations - Anonymous

Dreams of a race symbolize competition, comparison, winning and loosing. Your competitive edge may be inspiring you to become your personal best, pushing you to cross the finish line toward victory and a successful life. Your dream is giving you the message to do your best everyday, and to only compete with the person you were yesterday.

See Sports.

Source: Strangest Dream Explanations • Author: Dream Explanations - Anonymous

Interpretation 8 — myjellybean

Dreaming that you are in a race signifies that others are envious of your achievements and want what you have for themselves.

If you win the race, your dream means that you will overcome your competitors. This dream can reveal your competitive nature and how you tend to measure yourself against others.

Source: My Dream Interpretation • Author: myjellybean

Interpretation 9 — Tony Crisp

One’s life or taking part in life and the human race, perhaps acknowledging one’s position in the ‘race’; competi­tiveness, or feelings of competition. Racing car, bike: competi­tive drive; sexual energy; daring.

See example in failure.

Source: A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences • Author: Tony Crisp

Interpretation 10 — Michael and Elizabeth Thiessen

Running a foot race in your dreams show that you have an enemy who is a threat to your possessions and is envious of your acquisitions or achievements.

To win the race means you will quickly overcome your adversary.

Source: Encyclopedia of Dreams • Author: Michael and Elizabeth Thiessen

Interpretation 11 — James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver

Running a race may depict how the dreamer feels about his or her waking life (a hectic “rat race,” perhaps?), possibly indicating the dreamer should slow down or change his or her approach to life.
Source: Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia • Author: James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver

Interpretation 12 — Gillian Holloway

To dream of running a race is good to all, except they be sick persons when they dream they come to the end of their race, for it signifies that shortly they shall come to the end of their life.
Source: The Complete Dream Book • Author: Gillian Holloway

Interpretation 13 — Betty Bethards

If in a race, you are competing against yourself. Unite all aspects of the self in order to “win.” If racing along by yourself, take some time to relax, integrate and reflect along the way.
Source: The Dream Books Symbols • Author: Betty Bethards

Interpretation 14 — Eric Ackroyd

(1) Are you always measuring yourself against other people, instead of getting your values from an inner source?

(2) Is it the prize that is the important thing? See Prize.

Source: A Dictionary of Dream Symbols • Author: Eric Ackroyd

Interpretation 15 — Gustavus Hindman Miller

To dream that you are in a race, foretells that others will aspire to the things you are working to possess, but if you win in the race, you will overcome your competitors.
Source: Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation • Author: Gustavus Hindman Miller

Interpretation 16 — Vincent Wienand

1. Running in God’s purpose and calling;

2. Calling to go forth in ministry;

3. The race of faith;

Gal. 2:2; 2 Tim. 4:7; Heb. 12:1-2; Ps. 19:1-6.

Source: Dream Dictionary The Biblical Model • Author: Vincent Wienand

Interpretation 17 — Gillian Holloway

If you win a race in a dream—afoot, horseback, or in an automobile—you will be able to hold your own in competition with others.
Source: The Complete Dream Book • Author: Gillian Holloway

Interpretation 18 — Katherine Taylor Craig

A good dream to well persons, to the sick a speedy termination to the race of life is denoted (Artemidorus).
Source: The Fabric of Dream • Author: Katherine Taylor Craig

Interpretation 19 — Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin

1. Preoccupations or obsessions.

2. Jealousy of others, compe­tition.

3. Need to slow down, relax.

Source: New American Dream Dictionary • Author: Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin

Interpretation 20 — Vincent Wienand

1. Paul told to run the race of faith;

2. Life of Christ;

3. Our Journey

Heb. 12:1-2.

Source: Dream Dictionary The Biblical Model • Author: Vincent Wienand

Interpretation 21 — Internet Archive - Anonymous

One of the ever-recurring obstacle dreams, warning you to persevere if you desire success.
Source: Mystic Dream Book • Author: Internet Archive - Anonymous

Interpretation 22 — Tyler Wolfe

Symbolic of the journey of life, Eccl. 9:11
Source: Christian Dream Symbols • Author: Tyler Wolfe

Interpretation 23 — Versatile - Anonymous

See running
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous