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Definition: Steeplechase |
SteeplechaseNoun1. A footrace of usually 3000 meters over a closed track with hurdles and a water jump. 2. A horse race over an obstructed course. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "steeplechase" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
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Literature | Steeplechase A horse-race across fields, hedges, ditches, and obstacles of every sort that happen to lie in the way. The term arose from a party of fox-hunters on their return from an unsuccessful chase, who agreed to race to the village church, the steeple of which was in sight; he who first touched the church with his whip was to be the winner. The entire distance was two miles. The Grand National Steeplechase is run on the Aintree course, Liverpool. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The steeplechase is a form of horse-racing (primarily conducted in the United Kingdom) and derives its name from early races in which orientation of the course was by reference to a church steeple, jumping fences and ditches and generally traversing the many intervening obstacles in the countryside.
It is a term now used to refer to a distance horse race with diverse fence and ditch obstacles; the most famous of these is the English Grand National run at Aintree race course.
The steeplechase is also an obstacle race in athletics (track and field), which derives its name from the horse-racing equivalent.
The length of the race is usually 3000 m, seven and one half laps of the track. In the first half lap runners encounter no barriers. In each subsequent lap the runners encounter five hurdles at the height of 36 inches. Four of the hurdles are on level ground, and the fifth hurdle at the top of the second turn is the water jump, which consists of a hurdle followed by a pit of water which is 12 feet long and slopes upward from 2.5 feet deep at the hurdle end to even with the surface of the track.
The steeplechase orginated in Ireland in the 19th century as an analogue to cross-country horse races which went from town steeple to town steeple, hence "steeplechase". Most of the earlier steeplechases were contested cross-country rather than on a track and resembled English cross country as it exists today. The steeplechase (at varying distances) has been an Olympic event since the inception of the modern Olympics. The current world record in the 3000 m steeplechase for men is held by Brahim Boulami of Morocco at 7.53,17 and was set on August 16, 2002 but is still awaiting ratification from the IAAF.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Steeplechase."
Crosswords: Steeplechase |
| English words defined with "steeplechase": Grand National ♦ water jump. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "steeplechase": Purler. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Steeplechase (1933) | |
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 | Steeplechase, some riders and horses fallen after jumping fence. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Steeplechase Park swimming pool, Coney Island. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Entrance of Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Beach by Steeplechase Pier, Atlantic City, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Steeplechase Pier amusement park and boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Ambition at that time was, as the word itself imports, of the nature of a steeplechase. |
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| "Steeplechase" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.30% of the time. "Steeplechase" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.3% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.35% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.76% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.59% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "steeplechase": steeplechase course. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "steeplechase": ex-steeplechase. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "steeplechase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | garë me kuaj në terren me pengesa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سباق الحواجز للخيول. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | крос. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 跳 板. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dostihy s překážkami. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | اسبدوانی صحراءی , اسب دوانی باپرش ازمانع . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | esteratsastus, estejuoksu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | steeple-chase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hindernisrennen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιπποδρομία μετ' εμπόδιων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מרוץ מכשולים (obstacle race). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | akadályverseny (hurdle-race, hurdles, obstacle race), akadályfutás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | corsa ad ostacoli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 장 물 경주. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lheim-ratch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eeplechasestay corrida de obstáculos (obstacle-race). (various references) curse de cai cu obstacole. (various references) скачки с препятствиями (hurdle race, obstacle race, obstacle races). (various references) stiplčez. (various references) carrera de obstáculos (obstacle race). (various references) terrängritt, hinderlöpning (hurdle race). (various references) engelli yarış (hurdle race, obstacle race), engelli koşu (hurdle race). (various references) брати участь у перегонах з перешкодами, перегони з перешкодами. (various references) cuộc chạy việt dã, cuộc đua ngựa vượt r o cuộc chạy đua băng đ"ng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "steeplechase": steeplechaser, steeplechasers, steeplechases. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-e-h-l-p-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: selectees. | |
-4 letters: capelets, celestas, celestes, chaplets, cheapest, chelates, electees, escapees, escheats, heatless, heeltaps, pathless, pectases, pleaches, satchels, selectee, slatches, speeches, steeples, tapeless. | |
-5 letters: apheses, aspects, capelet, capless, caplets, castles, celesta, celeste, chalets, chapels, chaplet, cheeses, chelate, clashes, ectases, elapses, electee, escapee, escapes, escheat, hapless, haslets, hatless, heeltap, hepcats, latches, leaches, leashes, leeches, letches. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-e-h-l-p-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: steeplechaser, steeplechases. | |
+2 letters: steeplechasers. | |
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