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# hurdles

«hurdles» in Mova's school dictionary: **a race in which runners jump over a row of light frames:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) (sport) Hurdles are a race in which runners jump over a row of light frames: the 100 metres hurdles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#m1)

2) A hurdle is one of those frames. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#m4)

5) (verb) to jump over something while running. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#m5)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#x1)
- He knocked over the last hurdle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#x2)
- Learning to read was a big hurdle for him. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#x4)
- The farmer moved the hurdles to make a new sheep pen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#x5)
- The horse jumped the hurdles easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/#x6)
- Our class practised hurdles in PE. [tree →](https://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hurdles» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurdles/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.