hurdling
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- noun
- /ˈhɜrdlɪŋ/
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carrera de vallas
- In the 110-meter hurdles, athletes showcase their speed and skill while hurdling over a series of obstacles.
Examples
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The sponsored scientists found that while Jones' hurdling technique was solid, her first eight steps before the hurdling began had room for improvement.
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He trained hard for months to improve his hurdling technique before the championship race.
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No hurdling, just let that ball go.
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The sponsored scientists found that while Jones' hurdling technique was solid, her first eight steps before the hurdling began had room for improvement.
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His hurdling looks very smooth (you can see him in lane 7):
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Hurdling Fail
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Another PT was asked to teach sprinting and hurdling to groups of 10 middle school children, while a fifth PT was observed supervising small groups of middle school children engaged in an endurance run.
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Hurdling: LeGarrette Blount (2008-09): Defenders, particularly smaller defensive backs, are taught to go low and take out a ballcarrier's legs.
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That is the wrong way to write about Lolo Jones—who fell just short of medaling Tuesday in hurdling—or, for that matter, to write about any Olympic athlete.
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During the competition, she displayed exceptional talent in hurdling, effortlessly clearing each barrier.
Synonyms
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A race where people run a set distance
A running race where runners jump over low barriers
A race in which runners jump over barriers set at fixed distances
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hurdling comes from hurdle, an old word for a light wooden 'fence' or 'frame' used to pen animals or mark a course, and people often had to jump over these panels. So, because runners had to jump over such small fences, hurdling now means a race of running and jumping over obstacles.