cyclo-cross

[ sahy-kloh-kraws, -kros ]

noun

1. a bicycle race over a cross-country course, featuring steep hills, turns, and sometimes muddy terrain, that occasionally requires a rider to carry the bicycle over fences and up stairs.

cyclo-cross

noun

1. 1. a form of cycle race held over rough ground
   2. this sport

Word History and Origins

Origin of cyclo-cross¹

1950–55; cycle + -o- + cross(-country) ( def ); motocross

Example Sentences

Also a former world cyclo-cross champion, he arrived at Elancourt Hill - the highest point in the Paris region at 231m - on Monday as favourite for the gold, despite pulling out of the Tour de France with Covid only 16 days ago.

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Nystrom went looking for another challenge and found it in cyclo-cross.

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Cyclo-cross is a discipline in which riders tackle a looped course, mostly off-road, that takes them through mud and sand, over steep hills, around tight turns and - as a winter discipline - in whatever the weather throws at them.

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But, with the 2022 cyclo-cross world championships due to be held in the United States, specifically Fayetteville in Arkansas, it was a stage for his message.

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He lobbied the Costa Rican federation to put him in for the event, even though there was no history of cyclo-cross in the country.

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