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crosscountry

crosscountry is the alternative form of cross-country.

crosscountry is the alternative form of cross country.

Meaning of cross-country

Adjective

cross-country (not comparable)

  1. From one side of a country to the other.
    • 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.1940 May, “Items of Interest: From Chippenham to Hay”, in Railway Magazine, page 319
  2. Across countryside.
  3. Relating to cross country racing.
    • It involves bloodhounds and horse riders pursuing not foxes but cross-country runners.2025 November 15, Matthew Weaver, “‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  4. Across countries; international.
    Synonyms:
    cross-countries

Meaning of cross country

Noun

cross country (countable and uncountable, plural cross countries or cross countrys)

  1. A running sport popular in US high schools, colleges, etc., where participants race over varying terrain (e.g. golf courses, roads, etc.) in approximately 5- to 10-kilometre races.
    Synonyms:
    XC
  2. A phase of the equestrian sport of three day eventing, which the horse and rider travel over varied terrain and jump natural obstacles.
  3. (countable) Flight between two points or aerodromes using navigational techniques.

Forms of crosscountry

pluralcrosscountries
pluralcrosscountrys

Questions about crosscountry

What is crosscountry the alternative form of?
Crosscountry is the alternative form of cross-country.

Words near crosscountry in the dictionary

  1. crosscorrelation
  2. crosscorrelations
  3. crosscorrelogram
  4. crosscorrelograms
  5. crosscountries
  6. crosscountry
  7. crosscountrys
  8. crosscoupled
  9. crosscoupling
  10. crosscouplings
  11. crosscourt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crosscountry (page history and authors); cross-country (page history and authors); cross country (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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