cross-country skiing

See also: cross country skiing

English

Ski track at Kimberley Nortic.

Noun

cross-country skiing (uncountable)

1. (sports) An endurance sport and method of getting about involving travelling on skis, uphill as well as downhill.
2. (skiing) A leisure activity using cross-country skis and ski poles for traversing natural terrain during winter.

Hypernyms

• (formal sport): nordic skiing
• skiing

Hyponyms

• classic skiing
• skate skiing, ski skating

Coordinate terms

• (recreational): downhill skiing

Related terms

• cross-country skier
• cross country
• cross-country
• cross country running

Translations

winter sport

• Breton: ski-bale (br) m
• Bulgarian: ски бягане n (ski bjagane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 越野滑雪 (yuèyě huáxuě)

• Czech: běžkování n
• Dutch: langlaufen (nl) n
• Finnish: maastohiihto (fi), murtomaahiihto (fi)
• French: ski de fond (fr) m
• German: Langlauf m, Skilanglauf (de) m
• Hungarian: sífutás (hu)
• Japanese: 距離競技 (きょりきょうぎ, kyorikyōgi)
• Kazakh: шаңғы жарысы (şañğy jarysy)
• Ladin:

  badiot: paslunch f

  fascian: paslonch f

  gherdëina: pudejé

• Mongolian: гүйлтийн цана (güjltiin cana)
• Norwegian: (uncountable) langrenn (no) n
• Polish: biegi narciarskie nvir, narciarstwo biegowe n
• Russian: ката́ние на беговы́х лы́жах n (katánije na begovýx lýžax)
• Spanish: esquí de travesía m
• Swedish: längdskidåkning (sv) c, längdskidor (sv) c pl
• Turkish: kayaklı koşu

leisure activity

• Breton: ski-bale (br) m
• Czech: běžkování n
• Finnish: maastohiihto (fi), murtomaahiihto (fi)
• German: Langlauf m
• Norwegian: (uncountable) langrenn (no) n
• Turkish: kır kayağı