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steeplechase

/stee-puhl-cheys/US // ˈsti pəlˌtʃeɪs //UK // (ˈstiːpəlˌtʃeɪs) //

障碍赛,驿站,障碍賽,梯形障碍赛

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
    • : a point-to-point race.
    • : a foot race run on a cross-country course or over a course having obstacles, as ditches, hurdles, or the like, which the runners must clear.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    stee·ple·chased, stee·ple·chasing.

    • : to ride or run in a steeplechase.

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Examples

  • So I want to thank you for the way you celebrated after winning the 10,000-meters at the 2008 Olympic Trials, when you took an impromptu bath in the steeplechase water pit on your victory lap.

  • She is also a veteran steeplechase jockey who had to put weights in her jodhpurs to keep her mount on the horse.

  • The others fell into his wake, and the procession moved across country like a steeplechase.

  • After he had won—fairly won—the Yanyilla Steeplechase, should he go to my father and ask for the wife he had won?

  • If my Cossacks had not indulged in that steeplechase my journey might have had a tragic ending.

  • There are no sensational water-jumps even at steeplechase meetings, the colonial horse not being accustomed to water.

  • I gave him a fair start, then laid the hounds on and we had a five-mile point, going like a steeplechase all the way.