langlauf

plural langlaufs

1. uncountableCross-country skiing.

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

   2010, Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, page 95

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   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.

   1948, Arnold Lunn, Mountains of Memory, page 204

2. countableA langlauf run; a trip cross-country skiing.

   He went on langlaufs to develop endurance.

   1949, Louis R. Oshins, Champions' Book of Sports, page 137

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   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.

   1935, Erich Kästner, Three Men in the Snow: A Story, page 55

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

   1937, The Ski Bulletin - Volume 7, Issues 14-15

   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.

   1948, Arnold Lunn, Mountains of Memory, page 204

   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.

   1964, Walkabout - Volume 30

present singular third person langlaufs · participle present langlaufing · participle past langlaufed · past langlaufed

1. To go cross-country skiing.

   He who langlaufs last langlaufs longest.

   1970 October, “Ski Sayings”, in Skiing, volume 23, number 2, page 158

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   ‘Weekends the family make excursions. Romp in the woods, langlauf, play badminton.’

   1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 286

   He langlaufed across the small plateau that tilted gently upward, and paused on the ridge.

   1996, Jack Higgins, The Valhalla Exchange, page 251

   They langlaufed into Hot Sulphur Springs at 9 p.m., and found the Grand Ball in progress.

   2011 Nov-Dec, “Winter Carnival Centennial”, in Skiing Heritage Journal, volume 23, number 6, page 6

   We then langlaufed over to 'Higgie' (Mt Higginbottom) and finally back to the Diamantina about 3.30.

   2012, Norman N. Greenwood, Recollections of a Scientist: Boyhood and Youth in Australia