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 across unfamiliar countryside using a map and compass

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration of Swedish orientering, from orientera, to orient, from French orienter, from orient, east; see orient.]

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From Swedish orientering.

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Examples

  • 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.

    what is the best survival kit under $50. 2009

  • 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.

    what is the best survival kit under $50. 2009

  • "Some people call orienteering the thought sport," he said.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • 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.

    Land tenure and management in the boreal region 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 1900 - The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event

    magic-city-news.com 2008

  • 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

  • I remember being sixteen and taken on what she called an ‘orienteering’ course.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • 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.

    A Conversation with Aron Ralston 2010

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  • Racing across unfamiliar countryside using a map and compass.

    October 10, 2008

  • Fun!

    October 10, 2008