cross-country jumping

1. 1.

   riding horses across country over obstructions to demonstrate horsemanship

   Synonymscross-country riding

   Broaderequestrian sport

   Part ofthree-day event

Questions about cross-country jumping

What does cross-country jumping mean?

cross-country jumping means "riding horses across country over obstructions to demonstrate horsemanship".

What is another word for cross-country jumping?

Close synonyms include cross-country riding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cross-country jumping a common word?

cross-country jumping 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.