Today, the dominant step patterns are the 3-step for high hurdles, 7-step for low hurdles, and 15-step for intermediate hurdles. Hurdling is a highly specialized form of obstacle racing, and is part of the sport of athletics. The first three hurdles, which already exist in most countries, require the demonstration of efficacy, safety, and quality of the manufacturing process.

Context Explanation

any of a series of framelike barriers over which horses or runners must leap in a special race (the hurdles) 2. a problem or difficulty. There are several hurdles to be got over in this project. obstáculo Cf.

Insight Material

high hurdles, low hurdles. Sport any of various vertical barriers, as a hedge, low wall, or section of fence, over which horses must jump in certain types of turf races, as a steeplechase, but esp. an artificial barrier. hurdling, sport in athletics (track and field) in which a runner races over a series of obstacles called hurdles, which are set a fixed distance apart. To do this is also to hurdle.

Final Conclusion

There are physical hurdles, and then there are their figurative counterparts — those difficulties or hurdles that prevent you from progressing in your life. It's a verb with two meanings, one of which relates directly to the hurdles of track and field: "to leap over especially while running," as in "hurdling a fence."