Examples of hurtle in a Sentence Boulders hurtled down the hill. We kept to the side of the road as cars and trucks hurtled past us.

noun. Archaic. clash; collision; shock; clatter.

thrust, cast, squeeze, hurl, lunge, throw, stuff, push up, pierce, shove, force. hurl, hurtle, castverb.

1 : a barrier to be jumped in a race. 2 hurdles plural : a race in which runners must jump over barriers. 3 : obstacle He overcame many hurdles to become successful.

To leap over (a barrier) in or as if in a race. 2. To overcome or deal with successfully; surmount: hurdle a problem. To leap over a barrier or other obstacle.

1a : to gather in a close-packed group They huddled around the campfire. b : to curl up : crouch Students huddled over their desks. 2a : to hold a consultation huddled to discuss the proposal.

Hurdles

The foot kicks up in front of the knee too soon, thus causing the same negative effect as swinging from the hip, but even worse, because there’s more force behind the motion. The hurdler no longer has any control over the lead leg, and has to wait for gravity to bring the leg back down to the track.

Hurdling is dangerous on wet grass or any other slippery surface. It is also dangerous for children to run over hurdles in the opposite way to the correct running direction (i.e. with the feet of the hurdles on the far side).

Each athlete must pass over the hurdles; passing under or intentionally knocking over hurdles will result in disqualification. Accidental knocking over of hurdles is not cause for disqualification, but the hurdles are weighted to make doing so disadvantageous.

Three prominent hurdles event are 110m hurdles (men), 100m (women) and 400m hurdles. The height of each hurdle depends on the age group and gender of the competitors. In the 110m event for men, hurdles are set to be 3.5ft (1.07m) high, whereas in the 100m event for women, the height is set at 2.75ft (0.838m).

Yes, you could still win. The hurdles are there to slow you down – there’s no penalty for knocking them over. As long as you get over the hurdle, knocked down or not, you’re fine. It’s DEFINITELY not the most efficient way to run a hurdles race though.

Men’s Olympic distances are 110 metres and 400 metres; the 200-metre race was held only at the 1900 and 1904 Games. The 110-metre race includes 10 high hurdles (1.067 metres [42 inches] high), spaced 9.14 metres (10 yards) apart.

Like runners, hurdlers must have great endurance. The 400m Hurdles is known as the “man-killer” event. Hurdling is intense to begin with, and post-collegiate hurdling is all the more so because without many hurdlers around to train with, you end up doing much of the work alone.

around 5 1/2 feet tall

There are high jumpers who are below six feet tall. Franklin Jacobs was only 5′ 8″ tall. So to be a decent or good hurdler at 5′ 8″ tall is highly possible.

In order to give further dynamic impetus to women’s athletics, to reserve the hurdles sprint (60m and 100m hurdles) primarily for specialists and to make the event more attractive by increasing its demands, it is high time to raise the height of the hurdles to O.

There are many physical factors that contribute to a hurdler’s success, the primary ones being speed, power, endurance, flexibility, height, and quickness.

10 Hurdles You Might Experience During the Learnership

• You are not motivated to complete the program.
• You don’t get access to good leadership support.
• You don’t have enough time to practice on the side.
• You fear failure.
• You fear success.
• You are prone to stress.
• You have low basic skills.

In all levels of competition, runners are required to attempt to clear each hurdle. A hurdler who runs around a hurdle is automatically disqualified. Runners who trail a leg or foot below the horizontal plane of the hurdle’s top at the moment of clearance also are disqualified, according to IAAF rules.

The width of the hurdles shall be from 1.18m to 1.20m. The maximum length of the base shall be 70cm. The total weight of the hurdles shall be not less than 10kg.

What is another word for athletics?

Gymnastics

: an athletic contest involving participation by each contestant in five different events especially : modern pentathlon.