Cross country, cross-country or CrossCountry may refer to:
Places
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Cross Country, Baltimore
Fallstaff is a neighborhood in the Park Heights, Upper Park Heights area of Northwest Baltimore, Maryland, and is one of the city's northwesternmost communities. The area, which is mostly middle class, is part of the center of Baltimore's Orthodo ...
, a neighborhood in northwest Baltimore, Maryland
Media and entertainment
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''Cross Country'' (Webb Pierce album)
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Cross Country (Breland album)
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Cross Country (band), a band formed in 1973
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''Cross Country'' (1983 film), a 1983 drama film directed by Paul Lynch
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''Cross-Country'' (2011 film), a 2011 short drama film directed by Maryna Vroda
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Cross-Country (G.I. Joe), 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 a series of educational video games for North American students (first grade, grade one through ninth grade, grade nine). The games are published by Ingenuity Works, a Vancouver-based company originally known as Didatech Softw ...
'' (1988), an edutainment videogame by Didatech
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Lawrence Jones Cross Country'', a 2022-2023 U.S. television program
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 soil, earth, pass through woodlands and ope ...
, a sport in which teams of runners compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain
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Cross-country cycling
Cross-country (XC) cycling is a discipline of mountain biking. Cross-country cycling became an Olympic sport in 1996 and is the only form of mountain biking practiced at the Olympics.
Terrain
Cross-country cycling is defined by the terrain on w ...
, the most common discipline of mountain biking
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Cross-country riding
Cross country equestrian jumping 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-level, local competitio ...
, 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 cross-country jump refers to a style of skydive where the participants open their parachutes immediately after jumping, with the intention of covering as much ground under canopy as possible. A cross-country jump is typically planned when the ...
, a parachute jump
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Cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing whereby skiers traverse snow-covered terrain without use of ski lifts or other assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreational activity; however, some still use it as a m ...
, a winter sport for skiing
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Off-trail hiking
For off-trail hiking, a hiker relies on tools such as topographical maps, a compass and a GPS unit, rather than following a trail. It is also known as bushwhacking.
There is some concern that off-trail hiking cause trailbraiding (creating mu ...
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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 involve using a map and compass to navigation, navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specia ...
, sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass
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Trail running
Trail running is a type of running that takes place on outdoor trails, often in mountainous terrain, and often includes significant ascents and descents.
It is similar to both mountain running, mountain and fell running (also known as hill r ...
, a sport which consists of running and hiking over trails
Transportation
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Cross Country (automobile)
Cross Country is an automobile model name for the station wagon versions of the:
* AMC Ambassador, model years 1958 through 1968
* AMC Rebel
The AMC Rebel (known as the Rambler Rebel#Fifth generation, Rambler Rebel in 1967) is a mid-size car ...
, various station wagons made by Nash and American Motors
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Cross Country Route
The Cross Country Route is a long-distance railway route in England, which runs from to via , , and or . Inter-city services on the route, which include some of the longest passenger journeys in the UK such as to , are operated by CrossC ...
, a railway route in the Great Britain
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CrossCountry
CrossCountry (legal name XC Trains Limited) is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains, operating the current CrossCountry franchise.
The CrossCountry franchise was restructured by the Department for Transport (DfT) in 2006, ...
, a train operating company in Great Britain
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Aeros Cross Country
The Aeros Cross Country, sometimes called the Aeros Cross-Country, is a Ukrainian ultralight trike, designed and produced by Aeros of Kyiv. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly aircraft or as kit for amateur construction.Bert ...
, an ultralight trike aircraft
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Virgin CrossCountry
Virgin CrossCountry was a train operating company in the United Kingdom that operated the InterCity CrossCountry passenger franchise from January 1997 until November 2007. Along with the InterCity West Coast franchise held by a separate legal ...
, a former train operating company in Great Britain
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Cross Country (Volvo) Cross Country is a series of Volvo
The Volvo Group (; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the product ...
, various station wagons made by Volvo
See also
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Cross-border
Borders are generally 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 ...
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Off-roading
Off-roading is the act of driving or riding in a vehicle on unpaved surfaces such as sand, dirt, gravel, riverbeds, mud, snow, rocks, or other natural terrain. Off-roading ranges from casual drives with regular vehicles to competitive events w ...
, driving or riding a vehicle on unsurfaced roads or tracks
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Country (disambiguation)
A country is a geopolitical area–often synonymous with a sovereign state.
Country or countries may also refer to:
* Rural area, the country or countryside, an area away from towns or cities
* Country (identity), a self-concept relating to an in ...
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Cross (disambiguation)
A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines or bars.
Cross or The Cross may also refer to:
Religion
* Christian cross, the basic symbol of Christianity
* Cross necklace, a necklace worn by adherents of the Christian re ...
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Cross County (disambiguation) Cross County is a county in the U.S. state of Arkansas.
Cross County may also refer to:
* Cross County Parkway, an east–west parkway in Westchester County, New York
* Cross County Shopping Center
Cross County Center is an open-air shopping ...
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