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Answer for the clue "Outdoor sport ", 12 letters:
orienteering

Word definitions for orienteering in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to a competitive sport, 1948, from orient (v.).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Climbing, abseiling, sailing, orienteering , canoeing, catering for individuals or groups. ▪ Contact:. 12-13 Try orienteering weekend. ▪ Contact:. 5 Have a go at orienteering in Calderdale. ▪ Members of orienteering clubs in ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (label en sport) racing across unfamiliar countryside using a map and compass

Usage examples of orienteering.

They had run over a hundred kilometers, over the heavy corrugations of Minus One’s central moors, a devilish network of ravines, grabens, pingo holes, alases, escarpments and rockfalls— nothing too deep, apparently, so that many different routes were possible, making it as much an orienteering event as a run.

They had run over a hundred kilometers, over the heavy corrugations of Minus One's central moors, a devilish network of ravines, grabens, pingo holes, alases, escarpments and rockfalls nothing too deep, apparently, so that many different routes were possible, making it as much an orienteering event as a run.

They had run over a hundred kilometers, over the heavy corrugations of Minus One’s central moors, a devilish network of ravines, grabens, pingo holes, alases, escarpments and rockfalls—nothing too deep, apparently, so that many different routes were possible, making it as much an orienteering event as a run.

At school he'd been a star track and field man, as well as making first string on the football team, and he'd thought he was in pretty good shape, but a summer of long hikes, rugged climbing, and orienteering through the Rockies had convinced him otherwise.

Sageday was a short field exercise in squads and occasionally platoons, involving orienteering, simulated raids, finding objectives, rescue and first aid and infiltration/exfiltration.