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Hurdling   /hˈərdəlɪŋ/  /hˈərdlɪŋ/   Listen
Hurdling

noun
1.
A footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles.  Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdles.






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"Hurdling" Quotes from Famous Books



... him. His eye caught flashes of white through the green of the spruce on the opposite slope. He knew that a band of deer had been startled to sudden flight, that the jerky gleams of white were the brief exposures of the underparts of their tails as they were upflung in hurdling windfalls. The wind was wrong and Breed could not catch the scent. He traced their course through the timber by their white flags and saw three deer break cover and start out across a long narrow opening on the slope, the path of a snowslide that had stripped a lane through the trees ...
— The Yellow Horde • Hal G. Evarts

... could think of was that the hour in which he must disgrace Ray Longstreth was slowly but inexorably coming. In that waiting time he learned what love was and also duty. When the day at last dawned he rode like one possessed down the rough slope, hurdling the stones and crashing through the brush, with a sound in his ears that was not all the rush of the wind. Something dragged ...
— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey



Words linked to "Hurdling" :   track event, hurdle



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