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US
/ˈhɝdəɫɪŋ, ˈhɝdɫɪŋ/
]
[ UK /hˈɜːdlɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /hˈɜːdlɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles
How To Use hurdling In A Sentence
- Clearly in excellent form, she looks an exciting recruit to hurdling and I fancy that she can continue her winning run.
- A former useful handicapper on the Flat with Sir Mark Prescott, Inglis Drever has taken to hurdling like the proverbial duck to water and has won all his three races in the style of a high-class recruit.
- I can see how witnesses can get garments wrong, make assailants taller, and so on, but I really don't see how several witnesses can confuse going through the barrier with a ticket and hurdling it.
- The three-year-old, who has been hurdling recently, was a winner over tomorrow's distance of two miles on the Flat in mid-summer and is not one to underestimate in a poor race.
- She looks up and nearly jumps out of her skin. She runs like an Olympic sprinter, hurdling two garbage cans before reaching her house.
- There are occasional fields of sainfoin and of turnips; but these latter are small, and no ridging or hurdling is yet practised. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863
- If he wins that I will send him to France for a Group Three race and, if he doesn't, he will go hurdling.
- Hurricane Fly's sire, Montjeu, was a top-class Flat racer, who has imparted finishing speed to his hurdling son, but for it to be effective the jockey must apply it at the right moment to nullify the stamina of more traditionally bred jumping horses. Ruby Walsh displays mastery of Cheltenham with hat-trick of winners
- He has always looked the type to improve as a steeplechaser and judged on his hurdling form, it's hard to see why he shouldn't make a winning start today. Talking Horses
- The Sir Henry Cecil-trained Plato scored in the Flat race in March and has now embarked on a hurdling career for connections who will certainly have had their card marked about the horse's ability. Tattenham Corner