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Answer for the clue "Event in sport inspiring daughter ", 8 letters:
hurdling

Word definitions for hurdling in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A hurdle race in Britain and Ireland is a National Hunt horse race where the horses jump over obstacles called hurdles that are over three and a half feet high. They are typically made of a series of panels made of brush and are flexible. Hurdle races always ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context athletics English) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdle. 2 hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land vb. (present participle of hurdle English)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a footrace in which contestant must negotiate a series of hurdles [syn: hurdles , hurdle race ]

Usage examples of hurdling.

She scooped the plasma gun off the ground and pursued in a blur of movement, faster than a galloping horse, hurdling planters and benches with headlong grace.

Winded, still stumbling off-balance from hurdling across the empty space, Pharaun surely couldn't fend off both of them at once.

She flew across the intervening field, now entirely visible in the full morning light, hurdling the low hedge without losing her stride and pelted to the thornbushy hill.

He led at full run, hurdling the low thorn scrub in his path, relying only on his own speed to survive the first volley when they made the contact, knowing that even if the terrs took him out he could leave Esau Gondele and his men to finish it for him.