Cross country or cross-country may refer to:
Places
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Cross Country, Baltimore, a neighborhood in northwest Baltimore, Maryland
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Cross County Parkway, an east–west parkway in Westchester County, NY
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Cross County Shopping Center
Cross County Center, also known as Cross County Shopping Center, an open-air shopping mall located at the junction of the NYS Thruway and Cross County Parkway, in the Kimball neighborhood of Yonkers, New York, United States. The mall hosts over 1 ...
, a mall in Yonkers, NY
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The Mall at Cross County, a smaller mall adjacent to the Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers, NY
Media and entertainment
* ''CMT Cross Country'', an American television series
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''Cross Country'' (album), an album by
Webb Pierce
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Cross Country (band), a band formed in 1973
* ''Cross Country'' (film), a 1983 drama film starring
Nina Axelrod
Nina Kether Axelrod (born July 28, 1955) is an American actress who appeared in films and television mainly during the late 1970s through the early 1980s. Since the early 1990s, she has worked as a casting director on films and taught drama in sc ...
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Cross-Country (G.I. Joe)
Cross-Country is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and animated series. He is the G.I. Joe Team's H.A.V.O.C. driver and debuted in 1986.
Profile
His real name is Robert M. Blais, and his rank is ...
, a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
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''Cross Country'' (novel), a 2008 novel by James Patterson
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Cross Country USA
''Crosscountry'' is an educational simulation software series of programs for North American students (grade one through grade nine). Many schools use these games as a fun way to teach their students about the states, provinces, territories, and ...
'' (1988), an edutainment videogame by Didatech
Sports
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Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open coun ...
, a sport in which teams of runners compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain
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Cross-country cycling, the most common discipline of mountain biking
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Cross-country riding
Cross country equestrian jumping is an endurance test that forms one of the three phases of the sport of eventing; it may also be a competition in its own right, known as hunter trials or simply "cross-country", although these tend to be lower ...
, one of the three phases of the equestrian sport of eventing
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Cross-country flying
Cross-country flying ( XC flying) is a type of distance flying which is performed in a powered aircraft on legs over a given distance and in operations between two points using navigational techniques; and an unpowered aircraft (paraglider, hang g ...
, a type of distance flying in an aircraft
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Cross-country jump, a parachute jump
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Cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...
, a winter sport for skiing
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Fell running
Fell running, also sometimes known as hill running, is the sport of running and racing, off-road, over upland country where the gradient climbed is a significant component of the difficulty. The name arises from the origins of the English sport o ...
, the sport of running and racing, off-road, over upland country
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Orienteering
Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a s ...
, sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass
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Trail running, a sport which consists of running and hiking over trails
Transportation
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Cross Country (automobile), various station wagons made by Nash and American Motors
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Cross Country Route
A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines or bars, usually perpendicular to each other. The lines usually run vertically and horizontally. A cross of oblique lines, in the shape of the Latin letter X, is termed a sa ...
, a railway route in the Great Britain
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CrossCountry
CrossCountry (legal name XC Trains Limited) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Arriva UK Trains, operating the Cross Country franchise.
The CrossCountry franchise was restructured by the Department for Transport (DfT) ...
, a train operating company in Great Britain
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Aeros Cross Country, an ultralight trike aircraft
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Virgin CrossCountry
Virgin CrossCountry was a train operating company in the United Kingdom operating the InterCity CrossCountry passenger franchise from January 1997 until November 2007. Virgin CrossCountry operated some of the longest direct rail services in th ...
, a former train operating company in Great Britain
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Cross Country (Volvo), various station wagons made by Volvo
See also
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Cross-border
Borders are usually defined as geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. Political borders ca ...
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Off-roading, driving or riding a vehicle on unsurfaced roads or tracks
* Operation Cross Country, the
FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic Intelligence agency, intelligence and Security agency, security service of the United States and its principal Federal law enforcement in the United States, federal law enforcement age ...
's annual law enforcement action focused on recovering underage victims of prostitution.
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