cross-country

alternative cross country · alternative crosscountry

1. not comparableFrom one side of a country to the other.

   There are certain parts of Great Britain in which, even in peace time, the speed of cross-country travel has made no advance for more than half-a-century.

   1940 May, “Items of Interest: From Chippenham to Hay”, in Railway Magazine, page 319

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   Passenger traffic consists largely of through expresses from London, Bristol and Birmingham to South Wales via Severn Tunnel Junction, and cross-country trains from the north and Midlands via Pontypool Road. (In Britain cross-country trains connect regional centres, and avoid London.)

   1963 February, G. M. Kichenside, “The Newport (Mon.) resignalling scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 125

   I made reservations for three with USAir, Manchester, New Hampshire, to Seattle, Washington. […] I negotiated with Polly's doctors to transfer her treatment cross-country.

   2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, pages 102–103

2. not comparableAcross countryside.
3. not comparableRelating to cross country racing.

   It involves bloodhounds and horse riders pursuing not foxes but cross-country runners.

   2025 November 15, Matthew Weaver, “‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

4. not comparableAcross countries; international.

   Synonyms: cross-countries

plural cross-countries · plural cross-countrys · alternative cross country · alternative crosscountry

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of cross country.