Course may refer to:

Directions or navigation

* Course (navigation), the path of travel * Course (orienteering), a series of control points visited by orienteers during a competition, marked with red/white flags in the terrain, and corresponding purple symbols on the map

Education

Course (education) In higher education a course is a unit of teaching that typically lasts one academic term, is led by one or more instructors (teachers or professors), and has a fixed roster of students. A course usually covers an individual subject. Courses gene ...

, a unit of instruction in one subject, lasting one academic term * Course of study, or academic major, a programme of education leading to a degree or diploma

Food

* Course (food), a set of one or more food items served at once during a meal *

Main course A main course is the featured or primary dish in a meal consisting of several courses. It usually follows the entrée ("entry") course. Typically, the main course is the meal that is the heaviest, heartiest, and most intricate or substantial o ...

, the primary dish in a meal consisting of several courses.

Sports

* Courses and rules, in show jumpting, an equitation or equestrian obstacle course * Coursing, the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs * Golf course, an area of land designated for the play of golf * La Course by Le Tour de France ("La Course"), a women's professional road course bicycle race that accompanies Le Tour (Tour de France) * Obstacle course, a series of challenging physical obstacles an individual or team must navigate for sport * Race course, for the racing of people, animals, and vehicles

Other uses

* Course (architecture), a continuous horizontal layer of similarly sized building material, in a wall * Course (medicine), a regime of medical drugs, or the speed of evolution of a disease * Course (music), a pair or more of adjacent strings tuned to unison or an octave and played together to give a single note, in a stringed instrument * Course (sail), the principal sail on a mast of a sailing vessel *

String course A belt course, also called a string course or sill course, is a continuous row or layer of stones or brick set in a wall. Set in line with window sills, it helps to make the horizontal line of the sills visually more prominent. Set between the ...

, a continuous narrow horizontal course or moulding which projects slightly from the surface of a wall * The Course, a Dutch dance music group * Watercourse, the channel that a flowing body of water follows

Directions or navigation

Education

Food

Sports

Other uses

See also