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Hurdles vs Hurdling - What's the difference?

hurdles | hurdling |

As nouns the difference between hurdles and hurdling

is that hurdles is plural of lang=en while hurdling is a track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.

As verbs the difference between hurdles and hurdling

is that hurdles is third-person singular of hurdle while hurdling is present participle of lang=en.

hurdles

English

Noun

(head)
  • A sport where athletes run along a track obstructed by regularly placed hurdles that must be leapt over.
    • Despite a stumble, he managed to come fourth in the hurdles .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hurdle)

    • hurdling

    English

    (wikipedia hurdling)

    Noun

  • (athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
  • hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land
  • * 1993 , Bob Rees, Marika Sherwood, Black Peoples of the Americas (page 51)
    • It is not unusual to find the little school of a Jamaican village nothing more than a hut of wattled hurdlings , covered on the sides with mud or clay, rooted with palm leaves or grass.

    Verb

    (head)