hurdle

1. 1.

   jump a hurdle

   Broadervault

   sport

Other forms of hurdle

plural

hurdles·

past tense

hurdled·

present participle

hurdling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hurdle

What does hurdle mean?

hurdle means "a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hurdle?

hurdle has 2 syllables: hur-dle. The stress falls on "hur". In IPA it is /ˈhɝdəl/.

What is another word for hurdle?

Close synonyms include vault. 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 hurdle a common word?

hurdle is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.