cross-country skiing
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- noun
- /ˈkrɔsˈkʌntri ˈskiɪŋ/
- UK
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esquí de fondo
- Pat had come to visit me, and we decided for him to wear one of my brother's boots and try cross-country skiing for the first time!
So if we did so that's downhill skiing, say snowboarding or cross country skiing.
- So if we did so that's downhill skiing, say snowboarding or cross country skiing.
- Reason being because the best skiing in Canada is there, the best cross country skiing.
Examples
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Let's go cross-country skiing tomorrow.
Fiction book (1996) -
But it's at the edge of acres of wooded land owned by the University, the kind of place my kids can cross-country ski for miles in the winter without seeing a soul, and where there's a pond, more of a swamp really, about a quarter-mile into the woods that's the perfect little place to ice skate, all surrounded by oaks.
Fiction book (2002) -
We just want to go cross-country skiing for a couple of weeks, away from everything.
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I am especially looking forward to cross-country skiing this winter!
Blog text (3) -
Pat comes to visit me in the Cities as things slow down a bit on the farm - cross-country skiing...
Blog text (28) -
Jaynie used to take me cross-country skiing there all the time.
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They want to go cross-country skiing?
Fiction book (1991) -
Lindsey, you remember when we were on that cross-country skiing trip and I broke my ankle?
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Depicted were bobsledding, freestyle skiing, and cross-country skiing, all sports in which the Soviet Union had received many gold medals.
Academic text (2011) -
Many people enjoy cross-country skiing across the beautiful frozen landscape in the winter.
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'cross-country' (travel across rural areas) combined with 'skiing' (the activity) yields skiing across open countryside rather than down slopes. This is a transparent compound following normal English word-formation and is likely obvious to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Cross-country skiing comes from the simple image of people using skis to go cross the country, moving over fields and forests instead of down hills. So, the name now means 'skiing long distances across open land'.