Definitions for steeplechase

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steeplechase stee·ple·chase

Spelling: [stee-puh l-cheys]

IPA: /ˈsti pəlˌtʃeɪs/

Steeplechase is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 799 anagrams from letters in steeplechase (aceeeehlpsst).

Definitions for steeplechase

noun

1. a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
2. a point-to-point race.
3. a foot race run on a cross-country course or over a course having obstacles, as ditches, hurdles, or the like, which the runners must clear.

verb (used without object)

1. to ride or run in a steeplechase.

Origin of steeplechase

1795-1805; steeple + chase¹; so called because the course was kept by sighting a church steeple

Examples for steeplechase

Off they went, through the air—quick as if they were on a steeplechase.

He's a steeplechase jock, gener'ly, though he's good on the flat, too.

It is true, it is a steeplechase between the reporters and us.

Well, Oi was telling ye about the steeplechase Jimmy Brook rode.

Yes; wonderfully like the ladies we met at the steeplechase, were they not?

He, evidently, was never born to be killed in a steeplechase.

I do not think his going and riding in the steeplechase was an act of direct disobedience.

You might as well look out for a soft spot to fall in a steeplechase.

Now I will wager a red pippin that I can tell what you said at the steeplechase to the steeplestakes.

Soon after I left the stable there was a steeplechase, and he determined to ride.