An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
He ran in the 100 metres hurdles.
An obstacle, real or perceived, physical or abstract.
My last stop was an outdoor speech to a huge crowd of Ukrainians whom I urged to stay on the course of freedom and economic reform. Kiev was beautiful in the late spring sunshine, and I hoped its people could keep up the high spirits I had observed in the crowd. They still had many hurdles to clear.
Misspelling of hurtle.
To jump over something while running.
He hurdled the bench in his rush to get away.
To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).
A surname.
] From Middle English hurdel, hirdel, herdel, hyrdel, from Old English hyrdel (“frame of intertwined twigs used as a temporary barrier”), diminutive of *hyrd, from Proto-Germanic *hurdiz, from Pre-Ger...
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Misspelling of hurtle.