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noun

cross-country n. A race over a course including countryside, rather than over roads or prepared paths.

Synonyms: cross country.

adjective

cross-country adj.

From one side of a country to the other; as, a cross-country railway.

Moving across open country rather than following tracks or roads; as, a cross-country race. Opposite of road.

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Etymology of 'Cross-country'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cross-country" Quotes from Famous Books

... room, with a window opening onto the park, already beginning to turn yellow with the advancing autumn. A wood fire burned in the fireplace and lighted up the walls which were hung with flowered cretonne and on which could be distinguished several colored English prints representing cross-country rides and the jumping of hedges. Here was the worldly environment with which Fauchery is so often reproached. But the books and papers that littered the table bore witness that the present occupant of this charming retreat remained a substantial man of letters. His habit of constant work ...

— International Short Stories: French • Various

... and fashionable peeress, she hunts Ireland and England both with all the zest and skill of a native-born Irish woman. Her keenest American competitor, in the art of hard cross-country riding, is a young and beautiful Virginian, Mrs. Langhorne-Shaw, who comes over every year to hunt, and ...

— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various

... the building, set back from the river in the centre of the ranch. A man named Johnson, with his family, had charge of the ranch and post-office as well. Mail is brought by carrier from the south, a cross-country trip of 160 miles, through the Hopi and ...

— Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico • E. L. Kolb

... a number of cross-country races in which entries ranging from ten to twenty aviators flew from city to city around a given circuit, which in some instances exceeded 1,000 miles in distance. Cross-country flights with and without passengers became so common that those of less than two hours' duration attracted little ...

— Flying Machines - Construction and Operation • W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell

... to travel, and it is wonderfully entertaining to see old scenes through fresh eyes. It is that privilege, therefore, that makes it worth while to join the Motor Maids in their first 'cross-country run. ...

— What Two Children Did • Charlotte E. Chittenden

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