hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land
hurdling
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hurdling.
Editorial note
I don’t see any evidence that most of the biological world is hurdling towards destruction from climate.
Quick take
hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of hurdling gathered in one view.
(athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for hurdling.
noun
hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land
See also: hurdles, hurdle-race
noun
(athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
See also: hurdles, hurdle-race
Example sentences
I don’t see any evidence that most of the biological world is hurdling towards destruction from climate.
We are hurdling towards a brave new world where only 10% of humans have to work, and the other 90% form the bureaucracy on top.
Us frogs are beyond the boiling point, hurdling towards the inevitable.
Labor participation sees at least some discussion in the main stream but trying to distill everything into a 5 second headline is hurdling us to doom.
It’s the only time in my life I have felt the fact that we’re just standing on a rock hurdling through space.
(A few more details: there was some harassment later that night, busting my door knob by hurdling a shopping cart?
You know a 737 is responsible for ensuring the survival of human bodies hurdling through the air at hundreds of miles per hour at altitudes higher than Mount Everest?
Now we have humans inside a vessel hurdling through space at 0.01 c, in addition to the pre-existing humans in a planet swirling through space.
I'm willing to bet you're one of the people that doesn't believe we are hurdling towards a mass extinction event even while the oceans are boiling.
I tried getting Midjourney to generate an image of a boy doing a high jump - and no matter what I tried - the boy is hurdling over the bar rather than high jumping over it.
And I think a truck full of hard drives hurdling down the highway has had greater bandwidth than most of the world's networking for a while now.
You're hurdling through the sky at 600mph in a vehicle which is safer than driving a car, at a cost less than a half-week's pay for the median income in the US.
Quote examples
It's like saying "The bus is still hurdling down the road at highway speeds, therefore there is not hobo vomit in the back seat."
Edit: ah, I see it's "hurtling." Although I guess in both cases you have to dodge larger and larger geographic regions to claim success, so a bit like hurdling.
Yes, I naively wrote RIM an email about the ease of onboarding developers on Android and iOS, compared to the hurdles that needed hurdling on Blackberry OS, even before "BB10".
“Hurdling trenches, crawling over shell craters, and walking through forests unhalted by intense gunfire, the tanks cannot be stopped by anything less than a direct hit from shells of considerable caliber,” reports The Ogden Standard of October 21, 1916, 4 p.m.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use hurdling in a sentence?
I don’t see any evidence that most of the biological world is hurdling towards destruction from climate.
What does hurdling mean?
hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land
What part of speech is hurdling?
hurdling is commonly used as noun.