langlauf

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Etymology edit

Noun edit

langlauf (countable and uncountable, plural langlaufs)

(uncountable) Cross-country skiing.
- 1948, Arnold Lunn, Mountains of Memory, page 204:
  Horn's job was to push me down the steepest parts of the langlauf course in the pious hope that a few heavy falls would teach me more respect for Norwegian langlaufs.
- 2010, Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, page 95:
  I'm buying a rowing machine, an exercise bicycle, a langlauf podium, a bullworker.
(countable) A langlauf run; a trip cross-country skiing.
- 1935, Erich Kästner, Three Men in the Snow: A Story, page 55:
  There, overcome by the view and a sense of pure delight, one loses the last vestige of human reason, binds planks to one's feet and rushes downward, over wind-crust and powdered snow, over icy ridges and drifted fences, with jumps, turns, traverses, langlaufs and schuss-runs into the valley.
- 1937, The Ski Bulletin - Volume 7, Issues 14-15:
  The winter of '98 saw the Sunset Mine kept open by means of what sounds like one of the toughest langlaufs of all time.
- 1948, Arnold Lunn, Mountains of Memory, page 204:
  Horn's job was to push me down the steepest parts of the langlauf course in the pious hope that a few heavy falls would teach me more respect for Norwegian langlaufs.
- 1949, Louis R. Oshins, Champions' Book of Sports, page 137:
  He went on langlaufs to develop endurance.
- 1964, Walkabout - Volume 30:
  Those who were drinking "sipped at long glasses of gluhwein, a delicious concoction of warmed burgundy, cinnamon and raisins, and chattered about the day's runs, about technical aspects of langlaufs, cornices, laniéres and christies.

Verb edit

langlauf (third-person singular simple present langlaufs, present participle langlaufing, simple past and past participle langlaufed)

To go cross-country skiing.
- 1970 October, “Ski Sayings”, in Skiing, volume 23, number 2, page 158:
  He who langlaufs last langlaufs longest.
- 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 286:
  ‘Weekends the family make excursions. Romp in the woods, langlauf, play badminton.’
- 1996, Jack Higgins, The Valhalla Exchange, page 251:
  He langlaufed across the small plateau that tilted gently upward, and paused on the ridge.
- 2011 Nov-Dec, “Winter Carnival Centennial”, in Skiing Heritage Journal, volume 23, number 6, page 6:
  They langlaufed into Hot Sulphur Springs at 9 p.m., and found the Grand Ball in progress.
- 2012, Norman N. Greenwood, Recollections of a Scientist: Boyhood and Youth in Australia:
  We then langlaufed over to 'Higgie' (Mt Higginbottom) and finally back to the Diamantina about 3.30.

Derived terms edit

langlaufer