Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cross-country race in which competitors use a map and compass to find their way through unfamiliar territory.
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- noun
racing acrossunfamiliar countryside using amap andcompass
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Some add in orienteering equipment (compass/maps, gps, etc.) which is fine, but if you're truly 'out there' lost or hurt the general first rule is stay right where you are - let SAR find you instead of guessing the way out.
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Some add in orienteering equipment (compass/maps, gps, etc.) which is fine, but if you're truly 'out there' lost or hurt the general first rule is stay right where you are - let SAR find you instead of guessing the way out.
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"Some people call orienteering the thought sport," he said.
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Sports such as orienteering, cross-country skiing, and other popular outdoor activities that take place in the forests involve a relatively large proportion of people in Sweden.
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The “surveillance or targeting” could be better described as orienteering…that’s a compass with an attachment used to determine one’s own position.
Online, Two Pictures of the Israeli Military - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The young residents, identified as needing additional support and intervention to maintain safe, positive lifestyles found themselves undertaking activities such as orienteering, shelter-building and high rope traversing on Rhigos Mountain.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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1900 - The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event
magic-city-news.com 2008
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It was the support of fellow band members, choir singers or orienteering friends that helped people get through bouts of cancer or the death of a spouse.
Joe Robinson: Is Social Networking Destroying Our Social Lives? Joe Robinson 2011
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I remember being sixteen and taken on what she called an ‘orienteering’ course.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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For example, I learned from the bear-stalking incident in the Tetons that letting fear and panic interfere with decision making (in one instance, orienteering) skews those decisions for the worse; it is necessary to maintain calm and rational thought processes, all the more so when the consequences are greatest.
whichbe commented on the word orienteering
Racing across unfamiliar countryside using a map and compass.
October 10, 2008
dontcry commented on the word orienteering
Fun!
October 10, 2008