Hurdler; Do you "run" hurdles or "jump" hurdles?


I have been "running" (so my coach calls it) hurdles for years, just recently I heard someone say "jumping hurdles." Which is the correct term to use?



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In track and field you are correct to say you run hurdles.. however there are often hurdles in our life that we have to jump. When I come to a hurdle in life I look for way to go around it or if it is low enough to jump over it. When I was on the track team and in the hurdle race I ran the hurdles.. as a matter of fact you want to clear hurdles in track with a running stride those individuals who try to jump over a track hurdle in a race are the ones that lose.

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I say running also because u are not really jumping hurdles you are hurdling them...u jump the steeple chase ones though. I ran the 400 m hurdles and the 100 hurdles and u there is a difference between jumping and hurdling...High jump and long jump all have a specific goal u are either seeing how long or how high u can JUMP but with hurdles you are just trying to get high enough to get over them and still stay low enough so that u minimize ur time in the air ...and thats not jumping

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well...it's a race to the finish, a running race. Have you ever heard someone saying "I jumped the 100m hurdles in 12.3" ? I think "I ran the 100m hurdles in 12.3" sounds abit better.

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hurdles.. I did track and that is what I called it because I did them

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you hurdle hurdles. To hurdle means to leap over. so technically, you RUN up to the hurdle and then you hurdle it. Hurdling. weird word though when you say it and spell it alot.

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