hurdles

Definition of Hurdles in English :

a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hurdles

noun

athletics

a race in which people have to jump over a number of obstacles while running

Davis won the 400m hurdles in a new Olympic time of 49.3 sec.

n.

1. Sports

a. A light portable barrier over which competitors must leap in certain races.

b. hurdles A race in which a series of such barriers must be jumped without the competitors' breaking their stride.

c. A leaping step made off one foot as means of maximizing spring at the end of an approach, as to a dive.

2. An obstacle or difficulty to be overcome: the last hurdle before graduation.

3. Chiefly British A portable framework made of intertwined branches or wattle and used for temporary fencing.

4. Chiefly British A frame or sledge on which condemned persons were dragged to execution.

v. hur·dled, hur·dling, hur·dles

v.tr.

1. To leap over (a barrier) in or as if in a race.

2. To overcome or deal with successfully; surmount: hurdle a problem.

v.intr.

To leap over a barrier or other obstacle.