different between hurdling vs hurling

English

Noun

hurdling (countable and uncountable, plural hurdlings)

1. (athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
2. hurdles collectively; frames of twigs, etc. for enclosing land
   • 1993, Bob Rees, Marika Sherwood, Black Peoples of the Americas (page 51)

     It is not unusual to find the little school of a Jamaican village nothing more than a hut of wattled hurdlings, covered on the sides with mud or clay, rooted with palm leaves or grass.

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Verb

hurdling

1. present participle of hurdle

English

Noun

hurling (countable and uncountable, plural hurlings)

1. The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
   • 1864, Charles Dickens, "Pincher Astray", All the Year Round, Volume X, Number 249, pages 539-541

     The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently […]

2. An Irish game of ancient Celtic origin. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
3. A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.

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Verb

hurling

1. present participle of hurl

Derived terms

• senior hurling