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What (who) is hurdle - definition

OBSTACLE USED IN TRACK AND FIELD HURDLES

Hurdles (agricultural); Pipe panel

hurdle

(hurdles, hurdling, hurdled)

1.

A hurdle is a problem, difficulty, or part of a process that may prevent you from achieving something.

Two-thirds of candidates fail at this first hurdle and are packed off home...

= obstacle

N-COUNT: usu supp N

2.

Hurdles is a race in which people have to jump over a number of obstacles, that are also called hurdles. You can use hurdles to refer to one or more races.

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

N-COUNT-COLL

3.

If you hurdle, you jump over something while you are running.

He crossed the lawn and hurdled the short fence...

She learnt to hurdle by leaping over bales of hay on her family's farm.

VERB: V n, V

Hurdle

·vt To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.

II. Hurdle ·noun An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.

III. Hurdle ·noun In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.

IV. Hurdle ·noun A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, ·etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.

hurdle

¦ noun

1. one of a series of upright frames which athletes in a race must jump over.

(hurdles) a hurdle race.

2. an obstacle or difficulty.

3. a portable rectangular frame strengthened with withies or wooden bars, used as a temporary fence.

a horse race over a series of such frames.

Brit. historical a frame on which traitors were dragged to execution.

¦ verb

1. [often as noun hurdling] run in a hurdle race.

jump over (an obstacle) while running.

2. fence off with hurdles.

Derivatives

hurdler noun

Origin

OE hyrdel 'temporary fence', of Gmc origin.

Wikipedia

Hurdle

A hurdle (UK English, limited US English) is a moveable section of light fence. In the United States, terms such as "panel", "pipe panel" or simply "fence section" are used to describe moveable sections of fencing intended for agricultural use and crowd control; "hurdle" refers primarily to fences used as jumping obstacles for steeplechasing with horses or human track and field competition.

Traditional hurdles were made from wattle, but modern designs for fencing are often made of metal. They are used for handling livestock, as decorative fencing, for steeplechasing and in the track and field event of hurdling and Shuttle Hurdle Relay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdle

Examples of use of hurdle

1. Differences among shias themselves is another hurdle.

2. Emotions Another hurdle is the emotional challenge.

3. Technical hurdle The report said: "Once Iran overcomes the last technical hurdle of operating its test cascade, it can duplicate it and create larger cascades.

4. He proved a revelation the following season, notching up a sequence of five wins including the Bula Hurdle before landing the Champion Hurdle itself.

5. Meade sees Mr Nosie, who took his unbeaten sequence to three in the Future Champions Novices Hurdle over two miles, as more of a SunAlliance Hurdle candidate.