Meaning of langlauf | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Cross-country skiing.
   uncountable
2. A langlauf run; a trip cross-country skiing.
   countable

Examples

“Horn's job was to push me down the steepest parts of the langlauf course in the pious hope that a few heavy falls would teach me more respect for Norwegian langlaufs.”

“I'm buying a rowing machine, an exercise bicycle, a langlauf podium, a bullworker.”

“There, overcome by the view and a sense of pure delight, one loses the last vestige of human reason, binds planks to one's feet and rushes downward, over wind-crust and powdered snow, over icy ridges and drifted fences, with jumps, turns, traverses, langlaufs and schuss-runs into the valley.”

“The winter of '98 saw the Sunset Mine kept open by means of what sounds like one of the toughest langlaufs of all time.”

“He went on langlaufs to develop endurance.”

“Those who were drinking "sipped at long glasses of gluhwein, a delicious concoction of warmed burgundy, cinnamon and raisins, and chattered about the day's runs, about technical aspects of langlaufs, cornices, laniéres and christies.”

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