soft break

1. A breakaway that is allowed to go from the peloton in a stage race because it poses no strategic threat to any of the main contenders in the general classification.

2. A soft line break: any of certain kinds of line break (depending on implementation details) that cause a newline (i.e., line feed plus carriage return) inside a single paragraph, rather than demarking a paragraph break (hard return).

   Near-synonym: soft return (sometimes synonymous)

regular