Cross country or cross-country 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 Orthodox ...
, a neighborhood in northwest Baltimore, Maryland
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Cross County Parkway
The Cross County Parkway (CCP) is a parkway in lower Westchester County, New York, in the United States. The parkway is a critical east–west connection throughout Westchester, having full interchanges with every major north–south high ...
, an east–west parkway in Westchester County, NY
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Cross County Shopping Center, 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
Michael Webb Pierce (August 8, 1921 – February 24, 1991) was an American honky-tonk vocalist, songwriter and guitarist of the 1950s, one of the most popular of the genre, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the ...
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Cross Country (band) Cross Country is an American harmony trio from Brooklyn, New York (state), New York, United States. The folk rock band was formed as a side project of The Tokens, and featured three of its members: Jay Siegel, Mitch Margo and Philip Margo, Phil Marg ...
, 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), 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
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 equestrianism, 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 t ...
, 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 u ...
, 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
Trail running is a sport-activity which combines running, and, where there are steep gradients, hiking, that is run "on any unpaved surface". It is similar to both mountain and fell running (also known as hill running). Mountain running may, h ...
, 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 that was applied to station wagon versions of the:
* AMC Ambassador, model years: 1958 to 1968
* AMC Rebel, model years: 1967 to 1968
* Nash Rambler, model years: 1954 to 1955
* Rambler Classic, model ye ...
, 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
Aeros is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer founded by a group of ex-Antonov engineers in the early 1990s to build hang gliders. It is located in Kyiv.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 41. Pag ...
, 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) Cross Country is a series of lifted versions of Volvo models.
It has been used for the following cars:
*1997–2007 Volvo V70 XC
*2007–2016 Volvo XC70
*2016–present Volvo V90 XC
*2012–2019 Volvo V40 XC
*2010-present Volvo V60
The Volvo V6 ...
, 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
Off-roading is the activity of driving or riding in a vehicle on unpaved surfaces such as sand, gravel, riverbeds, mud, snow, rocks, and other natural terrain. Types of off-roading range in intensity, from leisure drives with unmodified vehicl ...
, 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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