cross country
Speech parts
1. cross country - Noun
2. cross country - Adjective
3. cross country - Adverb
Meaning
a long race run over open country
across the countryside
not following tracks or roads
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cross-country
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Examples
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.
I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.
Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers.
the river runs cross-country