[
US
/ˈkɹɔˌskəntɹi/
]
ADVERB
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across the countryside
the river runs cross-country
the road runs cross-country -
not following tracks or roads
they liked to race cross-country
How To Use cross-country In A Sentence
- Winter adds snowboarding, ice-skating, and cross-country and downhill skiing on the resort's groomed trails and ski slopes.
- The biathlon is a combination of cross-country skiing and .22 rifle marksmanship. And Now For Something Different In The, Uh, Shooting Sports
- While the alpine end of the sport needs only cold weather to produce skiable terrain, cross-country must have snow.
- The trail will accommodate five core activities: walking, cycling, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling (where possible or desired).
- The bear leader bear-led a group of wealthy young men on a cross-country hike.
- The sport of biathlon combines the disciplines of cross-country skiing and target shooting.
- Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived a cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. The Old Foodie
- the road runs cross-country
- Hill work makes athletes strong and strength is what a good cross-country runner needs.
- Five days of riding, a full day hike, and some short cross-country walks.