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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