langlauf
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To go cross-country skiing.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "He went on langlaufs to develop endurance."
- "Those who were drinking "sipped at long glasses of gluhwein, a delicious concoction of warmed burgundy, cinnamon and raisins, and chattered about the day's runs, about technical aspects of langlaufs, cornices, laniéres and christies."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Langlauf