Usually means: Obstacle to overcome in race.
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  1. hurdle: Merriam-Webster
  2. hurdle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hurdle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hurdle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hurdle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hurdle, hurdle: Wordnik
  7. hurdle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hurdle, hurdle: Wiktionary
  9. hurdle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hurdle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hurdle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hurdle, hurdle: Dictionary.com
  13. hurdle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hurdle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hurdle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hurdle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hurdle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hurdle: Rhymezone
  19. hurdle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hurdle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hurdle: FreeDictionary.org
  22. hurdle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hurdle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. hurdle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. hurdle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hurdle: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hurdle: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Hurdle: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hurdle: Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See hurdled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (athletics, equestrianism) An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
noun:  (figuratively) An obstacle, real or perceived, physical or abstract.
noun:  A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
noun:  (UK, historical) A sled or crate on which criminals were drawn to the place of execution.
verb:  To jump over something while running.
verb:  To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).
verb:  To overcome an obstacle.
verb:  To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (T-flapping) Misspelling of hurtle. [(countable) An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision.]
verb:  (T-flapping) Misspelling of hurtle. [(transitive, archaic)]

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