cross-country skiing

See also: cross country skiing

English

Noun

cross-country skiing (uncountable)

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

Hypernyms

(formal sport): nordic skiing
skiing

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

(recreational): downhill skiing

Related terms

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

Verb

cross-country skiing

present participle and gerund of cross-country ski