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# hurdles

noun (a hurdle, hurdles); verb (hurdle, hurdles, hurdled, hurdling)

«hurdles» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (sport) Hurdles are a race in which runners jump over a row of light frames: the 100 metres hurdles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#m1)
2. A hurdle is one of those frames. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#m2)
3. A problem or difficulty you must get past: the last hurdle before the holidays. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#m3)
4. (old, farming) A movable fence panel of woven sticks, used to pen sheep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#m4)
5. (verb) to jump over something while running. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#m5)

### In the lessons

PE and sports day: hurdles races; Olympics. Everyday figurative sense: «we've cleared the first hurdle». History and farming: wattle hurdles for sheep pens, as in old country scenes. In The Wind in the Willows the countryside has hedges and hurdles.

### Examples

- She won the girls' hurdles on sports day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#x1)
- He knocked over the last hurdle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#x2)
- Learning to read was a big hurdle for him. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#x3)
- We cleared the first hurdle and got the money for the trip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#x4)
- The farmer moved the hurdles to make a new sheep pen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#x5)
- The horse jumped the hurdles easily. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#x6)
- Our class practised hurdles in PE. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#x7)

### Note

«Hurdles» (plural) can name the race and takes a singular verb: «Hurdles is my best event.» Do not confuse with «huddle» (to crowd together). Verb: to hurdle a fence.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «hurdles» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hurdles» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/hurdles.html) on Mova free.