What is "enduro"

n. 1 (context uncountable English) A motorcycle sport run on predominantly off-road courses, with many obstacles and challenges. 2 (context countable English) A particular race or event in the sport of enduro.

thumb|upright=1.0|Four-time world champion Stefan Merriman on a Yamaha Enduro is a form of motorcycle sport run on courses that are mostly off-road. Enduro consists of many different obstacles and challenges. The main type of enduro event, and the format to which the World Enduro Championship is run, is a time-card enduro, whereby a number of stages are raced in a time trial against the clock.

Enduro is a racing video game designed by Larry Miller and published by Activision for the Atari 2600 video game system in 1983. Miller previously wrote Spider Fighter for Activision. The object of the game is to be in an endurance race and to pass a certain number of cars each day as to continue the race the next day.

In 1985 Activision released The Great American Cross-Country Road Race, a home computer game that follows the design of Enduro, but with enhanced visuals, audio, and some additional gameplay elements.

Enduro may refer to:

• Enduro is a form of motorcycle sport run on courses that are predominantly off-road.
  • Enduro motorcycle, a motorcycle specially made for the Enduro sport
• Enduro (mountain-biking) is a form of mountain-bike competition.
• Enduro (mountain-bike) is a kind of mountain-bike.
• Enduro race, a type of automobile stock car racing.
• Beaujon Enduro, a single-seat, ultralight aircraft that entered production in 1978.
• Enduro (video game) is a videogame designed by Larry Miller and published in 1983 by Activision for the Atari 2600.
• Enduro Racer is an arcade game from Sega, released in 1986
• Schmidtler Enduro, a German ultralight trike design
• AMD Enduro, a technology for use with mobile computing platforms that have hybrid graphics featuring a discrete AMD GPU

Enduro is a form of Mountain bike racing in which there is a number of timed downhill sections of trail, and a number of uphill transfer stages, which are not timed, but might have time limits to complete. It is a stage-race format where the winner is the rider who accumulates the lowest combined time from the various timed sections. Mountain bike enduro competitions typically take place over the course of 1 or 2 days, however, week-long enduro competitions do also exist. A typical one-day enduro race consists of 3 to 5 timed "special" stages which take place on technically demanding, generally descending terrain. These special stages are linked by predominantly ascending "liaison" stages. Although a rider's specific performance on the physically demanding liaison stages does not affect his or her result, the liaisons are often associated with a time cut-off (i.e. a latest permitted arrival at the summit of the next special stage). The sport has taken root mostly in the Northwest of United States, and in Europe, locations known for their miles of winding single-track trails alongside old growth forest and bubbling creeks.

According to the Enduro World Series 2015 Rule Book, a minimum of four special stages is required per event, a minimum of three different courses must be used, and the results will be calculated by adding all stage times together for each rider.

Enduro differs from XC cross-country cycling racing (which historically has more emphasis on cardiovascular fitness and less emphasis on technical ability) and pure downhill cycling racing formats, which may contain little to no climbing or cross country skills.

Enduro's 'All Mountain' discipline therefore favours riders with a breadth of skill, on multi discipline cycles; lightweight XC bikes may lack sufficient suspension travel for fast downhill control, whilst full DH bikes may not allow a rider to climb the uphill sections. In some countries, the term Enduro racing is used as a contraction of the word endurance; it is debatable if this use is misleading in this context.