Cyclocross is racing over mixed ground, carrying the cycle at times. A cyclocross season.
It was invented as winter training for road racers and became its own sport. Cyclocross is deliberately run in mud, and the races are short because of it.
1nouncyclocrossRacing over mixed ground, carrying the cycle at times.
“Cyclocross taught him to remount without stopping.”
cyclocross is a sport.
Cycle plus cross country, from the French cyclo-cross.
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷel-
Middle English
cicle
English
cycle
English, today
cyclocross
From cycle + -o- + cross country. cycle comes from Middle English cicle. From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (“circle”), from Proto-Hellenic kúklos, kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”). a doublet of chakra and chakram and charkha and chukker and cyclus and kike and wheel (see there for more).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA