Course may refer to:
Directions or navigation
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Course (navigation), the path of travel
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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
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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
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Course (food), a set of one or more food items served at once during a meal
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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
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Courses and rules, in show jumpting, an equitation or equestrian obstacle course
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Coursing, the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs
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Golf course, an area of land designated for the play of golf
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La Course by Le Tour de France ("La Course"), a women's professional road course bicycle race that accompanies Le Tour (Tour de France)
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Obstacle course, a series of challenging physical obstacles an individual or team must navigate for sport
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Race course, for the racing of people, animals, and vehicles
Other uses
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Course (architecture), a continuous horizontal layer of similarly sized building material, in a wall
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Course (medicine) In medicine the term course generally takes one of two meanings, both reflecting the sense of " path that something or someone moves along...process or sequence or steps":
* A course of medication is a period of continual treatment with drugs, somet ...
, a regime of medical drugs, or the speed of evolution of a disease
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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
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Course (sail)
In sailing, a course is a type of square sail. It is the sail set on the lowest yard
The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 ...
, the principal sail on a mast of a sailing vessel
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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
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The Course
The Course were a dance music act from the Netherlands. It consisted of DJ/producer Vincent Hendriks and vocalists Dewi Lopulalan and Irma Derby. , a Dutch dance music group
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Watercourse, the channel that a flowing body of water follows
See also
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Coarse (disambiguation)
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Courser (horse)
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Courser
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