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cyclo-cross

cyclo-cross is the alternative form of cyclocross.

Meaning of cyclocross

Noun

cyclocross (uncountable)

  1. (cycle racing) A form of bicycle racing consisting of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and obstacles and requiring the rider to quickly dismount, carry the bike whilst navigating the obstruction and remount in one motion.
    • Roby was an old cyclocross champion from the ’40s, a rugged man built for traversing the bumps and ruts of off-road competition, but he had also ridden in the Tour for several years.2009 July 15, George Vecsey, “Nod to the Past Stirs Memories of a Friend”, in New York Times

Questions about cyclo-cross

What is cyclo-cross the alternative form of?
Cyclo-cross is the alternative form of cyclocross.

Words near cyclo-cross in the dictionary

  1. cyclizine
  2. cyclizines
  3. cyclizing
  4. cyclo
  5. cyclo-
  6. cyclo-cross
  7. cyclo-decaphosphate
  8. cyclo-decaphosphates
  9. cyclo-octasulfur
  10. cyclo-oxygenase
  11. cyclo-oxygenases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyclo-cross (page history and authors); cyclocross (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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