bike race vs crit

bike race and crit both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bike race	Yes	No	No	No
crit	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, crit is a hyponym of bike race; that is, crit is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bike race:

bike race: a race between people riding bicycles
crit: a bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km or 3 miles)

Other hyponyms of bike race include Tour de France, criterium.

bike race (noun)	crit (noun)
a race between people riding bicycles	a bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km or 3 miles)