Definitions for steeplechasing

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steeplechasing stee·ple·chas·ing

Spelling: [stee-puh l-chey-sing]

IPA: /ˈsti pəlˌtʃeɪ sɪŋ/

Steeplechasing is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 2744 anagrams from letters in steeplechasing (aceeeghilnpsst).

Definitions for steeplechasing

noun

1. the sport of riding or running in a steeplechase.
2. a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
3. a point-to-point race.
4. 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 steeplechasing

steeplechase + -ing¹

Examples for steeplechasing

The same may be said of drag hunting, which I hold to be no place for a lady, any more than steeplechasing.

The unfortunate beast had learned to do everything—running, steeplechasing, jumping, army service.

But when the Jock comes to steeplechasing, he lengthens his stirrup leather and rides like a man.

With the average Nimrod of modern days, I venture then to assert that fox-hunting is only a modified form of steeplechasing.

Purler, a heavy fall from a horse in the hunting or steeplechasing field.

I think they were steeplechasing, and he had Kester on his back.

The trouble came, he explained, from a fall he had received the year before steeplechasing.

steeplechasing and racing I must touch on, and the little I have to say will not be in its favour.

steeplechasing is a Grand-National sport, but it is the sport of the rich, whereas hunting is not.

Although not keen on polo he was very fond of steeplechasing.