Cross-country

"Cross-country" in a Sentence (14 examples)

In high school, I won the Osaka and Kinki championships in cross-country skiing and Nordic combined skiing on countless occasions.

Nordic Combined is held as a combination of two events, ski-jump and cross-country ski.

Tom was carrying a pair of cross-country skis that he'd borrowed from Mary's husband.

Cross-country skiing is popular in Norway.

Tom often goes cross-country skiing.

For cross-country skiing, one uses narrower and longer skis than for alpine skiing.

He didn't bother with paths, running cross-country instead.

Yanni is on a cross-country drive.

I like downhill skiing better than cross-country skiing.

Tom likes cross-country skiing.

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There are certain parts of Great Britain in which, even in peace time, the speed of cross-country travel has made no advance for more than half-a-century.

Passenger traffic consists largely of through expresses from London, Bristol and Birmingham to South Wales via Severn Tunnel Junction, and cross-country trains from the north and Midlands via Pontypool Road. (In Britain cross-country trains connect regional centres, and avoid London.)

I made reservations for three with USAir, Manchester, New Hampshire, to Seattle, Washington. […] I negotiated with Polly's doctors to transfer her treatment cross-country.

It involves bloodhounds and horse riders pursuing not foxes but cross-country runners.

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