CROSS COUNTRY • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Cross country

... for some miles along a cross country path where the mud was so deep that the horses sank to their fetlocks. The wind had driven away the rain and the night had cleared overhead. There were still scudding clouds scouring across the face ...

— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine

... of New Hampshire and Maine, huge carnivals are held each winter. Championship contests in skiing, snowshoeing, skating, ski jumping, tobogganing and ski-joring are held. Snow sport games are also annual events in the Routt, Leadville and Pike National Forests of Colorado. Cross country ski races and ski-joring contests are also held. In the Truckee National Forest of California, dog-team races over courses of 25 to 50 miles are held ...

— The School Book of Forestry • Charles Lathrop Pack