hurdle race

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   a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles

   Synonymshurdleshurdling

   Broadertrack event

Questions about hurdle race

What does hurdle race mean?

hurdle race means "a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles".

What is another word for hurdle race?

Close synonyms include hurdles, hurdling. 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 race a common word?

hurdle race 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.