hurdles
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- n a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles
- n a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races
- n an obstacle that you are expected to overcome
- n the act of jumping over an obstacle
- v jump a hurdle
- There were numerous outstanding events: 1) The 400-metre hurdles race was won by George Taylor, Grinnell College, who reduced a world's record of 53 seconds to 52 610 .
- HurdlesChinaAge: 25 When Liu Xiang claimed victory in the 110-m hurdles in Athens, delivering China its first ever sprint gold, you could almost sense the alarm in the announcers .
- Minutes earlier, during a warm-up set of hurdles, Liu had grabbed his right leg, wincing in pain.