langlauf

1. (uncountable) Cross-country skiing.Examples: "Horn's job was to push me down the steepest parts of the langlauf course in the pious hope that a few heavy falls would teach me more respect for Norwegian langlaufs."; "I'm buying a rowing machine, an exercise bicycle, a langlauf podium, a bullworker."uncountable

2. (countable) A langlauf run; a trip cross-country skiing.Examples: "There, overcome by the view and a sense of pure delight, one loses the last vestige of human reason, binds planks to one's feet and rushes downward, over wind-crust and powdered snow, over icy ridges and drifted fences, with jumps, turns, traverses, langlaufs and schuss-runs into the valley."; "The winter of '98 saw the Sunset Mine kept open by means of what sounds like one of the toughest langlaufs of all time."; "Horn's job was to push me down the steepest parts of the langlauf course in the pious hope that a few heavy falls would teach me more respect for Norwegian langlaufs."countable