CROSS-COUNTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cross-country mean? 

• CROSS-COUNTRY (adverb)
  The adverb CROSS-COUNTRY has 2 senses:

1. not following tracks or roads

2. across the countryside

  Familiarity information: CROSS-COUNTRY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROSS-COUNTRY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not following tracks or roads

Context example:

they liked to race cross-country

Sense 2

Meaning:

Across the countryside

Context example:

the road runs cross-country

 Context examples 

Well, then we must make a cross-country journey to Newhaven, and so over to Dieppe.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The snow TENG has the potential to recognize movement patterns when cross-country skiing, which is a feature not yet available in fitness wearables and smart watches.

(Nanogenerator Creates Electricity from Snowfall, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Then as the gorse clumps grew thinner, and the sward more level, those on foot began to run, the riders struck in their spurs, the drivers cracked their whips, and away they all streamed in the maddest, wildest cross-country steeplechase, the yellow barouche and the crimson curricle, which held the two champions, leading the van.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)