STEEPLECHASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steeplechase mean? 

• STEEPLECHASE (noun)
  The noun STEEPLECHASE has 2 senses:

1. a footrace of usually 3000 meters over a closed track with hurdles and a water jump

2. a horse race over an obstructed course

  Familiarity information: STEEPLECHASE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEEPLECHASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A footrace of usually 3000 meters over a closed track with hurdles and a water jump

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("steeplechase" is a kind of...):

foot race; footrace; run (a race run on foot)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A horse race over an obstructed course

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("steeplechase" is a kind of...):

horse race (a contest of speed between horses; usually held for the purpose of betting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steeplechase"):

Grand National (an annual steeplechase run in Liverpool, England)

 Context examples 

Then as the gorse clumps grew thinner, and the sward more level, those on foot began to run, the riders struck in their spurs, the drivers cracked their whips, and away they all streamed in the maddest, wildest cross-country steeplechase, the yellow barouche and the crimson curricle, which held the two champions, leading the van.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)