cross country
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2.8
- noun
- /krɔs ˈkʌntri/
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carrera de campo a través
- During the fall season, the school organizes a cross country race through the wooded trails.
First annual John Clay Wolf's cross country race with Gas Monkey.
- First annual John Clay Wolf's cross country race with Gas Monkey.
- However, if you look at cross country runners, they all have the same form.
- Look around you, there have never been so many high school cross country team captains on one campus.
- So you start out, you start out as essentially a cross country protege in Colorado, right?
- And so that's what I got my scholarship for was cross country.
- I did football, huge, huge football town where I was from and started doing cross country and triathlons as well.
- I would have bloody thighs at the end of a cross country race for the first three years.
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In just three years, the Southern Oregon men's cross country team has gone from unranked to National Champions.
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Both the men's and women's cross country teams are competing Saturday in the NCAA Championships.
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Captain of the cross country team
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During his senior year, he joined the cross country running team.
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However, if you look at cross country runners, they all have the same form.
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" Western had already had quite a bit of success in cross country," Cannon said.
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Look around you, there have never been so many high school cross country team captains on one campus.
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And I know that during the cross country season, the kids are, their mood is much better than when they're not running.
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A major issue faced by high school cross country coaches is ensuring compliance with workout schedules.
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Marking an end to an incredible and historic season for the SF State men's cross country team.
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Synonyms
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'cross' (to go across) + 'country' (rural land) yields the idea of going across the countryside, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer a race or journey across natural terrain. The sporting sense (a race) is a straightforward, common extension and is cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Cross country comes from the simple image of going to cross the country: runners move over fields, woods and hills instead of on a track. So today cross country means 'a race across open land'.