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Hurdling vs Hurling - What's the difference?

hurdling | hurling |

As nouns the difference between hurdling and hurling

is that hurdling is a track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles while hurling is the act by which something is hurled or thrown.

As verbs the difference between hurdling and hurling

is that hurdling is present participle of lang=en while hurling is present participle of lang=en.

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)

    • hurling

    English

    Noun

  • The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
  • * Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
    • The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently
  • An Irish game of Celtic origin dating from AD400. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley ( in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
  • A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.

    • Verb

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