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- noun informal, usually used attributively
cross-country - noun informal
cross-country skiing - adverb Across the country.
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Examples
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Dutch people on the other hand can skate to work on frozen canals, Scandinavians can X-country ski to work and Canadians grow up playing hockey on the frozen pond outside.
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I came home L.A. tonight from my third X-country flight this month to find this on my computer chair:
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I came home L.A. tonight from my third X-country flight this month to find this on my computer chair:
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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My latest dispatch from our X-country trip whilst reading Anti-Oedipus…
Deterritorializing Deleuze & Guattari Across the Schizophrenic States of America | clusterflock 2009
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There is a couple there that were Olympic champions during the Soviet times, and they offer weekend X-country skiing trips for dirt cheap ~$40, including lodging, food, rentals, etc for the weekend.
Kyle’s Journey in Armenia » Blog Archive » Construction has Begun! and other exciting news 2008
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So a military intervention in X-country could be 'wrong' but also rational........
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The trails are a lot of fun for X-country skiing nothing too difficult that I tried or just walking, or snowmobiling, should you wish.
ice 2007
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X-country skiing - great exercise and fun, but no, not much of a spectator sport.
games 2005
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Story Highlights X-country skier Kikkan Randall won her second straight World Cup race last week Shauna Rohbock, Valerie Fleming won silver in their final bobsled race together
SI.com 2011
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For a country with no X-country tradition, for the Canadian team to be right up there with the Norwegians, Russians, Germans, etc. is a fabulous achievement.
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