Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Lampadrome \Lam"pa*drome\, n. [Gr. ?; ?, ?, torch + ? course,
   race, fr. ? to run.] (Gr. Antiq.)
   A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands.
   He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished,
   gained the prize.