cross country

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   a long race run over open country

   Broaderrace

   NarrowerIditarod

Questions about cross country

What does cross country mean?

cross country means "a long race run over open country".

Is cross country a common word?

cross country is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.