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Definition of Hurdlers
1. hurdler [n] - See also: hurdler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hurdlers
Literary usage of Hurdlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rowing and Track Athletics by Samuel Crowther, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1905)
"k CHAPTER VIII HURDLING AND hurdlers THE flight over the hurdles is one of the
prettiest pictures ever framed by the turf and trees of an athletic field. ..."
2. Reminiscences of an Athlete: Twenty Years on Track and Field by Ellery Harding Clark (1911)
"... AND PRESENT — THE hurdlers, JUMPERS, AND WEIGHT- THROWERS IN no other event
has the development in form, with its corresponding improvement in time, ..."
3. Athletic Training by Michael C. Murphy (1914)
"The hurdlers should do the same, and also try one or two hurdles to make sure
... In the case of the hurdlers it will probably be found impossible to try a ..."
4. The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898 by Frank Norris (1996)
"Nor can the jumpers, hurdlers and weight-putters and the like put forth ...
Murphy himself (Yale's trainer) admitted that the UC hurdlers had opened his ..."
5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1903)
"The special attention given to form in this event and the advent of Kraenzlein
have improved the standard of hurdlers very much the past seven years. ..."
6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1892)
"Curiously enough they have nearly all been sprinters and hurdlers. Joyce, Palmer,
and Le Fleming have all won the hurdles championship, and Shaw who did ..."
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