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ultraendurance

ultraendurance adjective: involving sustained or consistent activity for a very long time.

Adjective

ultraendurance (not comparable)

  1. Involving sustained or consistent activity for a very long time.
    • If you follow long-distance races, you might be thinking, wait—males are outperforming females in endurance events! But this is only sometimes the case. Females are more regularly dominating ultraendurance events such as the more than 260-mile Montane Spine foot race through England and Scotland...2023 November 1, Cara Ocobock, Sarah Lacy, “The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong”, in Scientific American

Origin of ultraendurance

From ultra- + endurance.

Questions about ultraendurance

What does ultraendurance mean?
Ultraendurance means involving sustained or consistent activity for a very long time.
What part of speech is ultraendurance?
Ultraendurance is an adjective.

Words near ultraendurance in the dictionary

  1. ultraefficient
  2. ultraelegant
  3. ultraeligible
  4. ultraelliptic
  5. ultraempirical
  6. ultraendurance
  7. ultraenergetic
  8. ultraenthusiasm
  9. ultraenthusiastic
  10. ultraevangelical
  11. ultraexcessive

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