cross-country skiing

1. 1.

   the sport of skiing across the countryside (rather than downhill)

   Broaderskiing

Questions about cross-country skiing

What does cross-country skiing mean?

cross-country skiing means "the sport of skiing across the countryside (rather than downhill)".

Is cross-country skiing a common word?

cross-country skiing 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.