obstacle course
noun
: a military training course filled with obstacles (such as hurdles, fences, walls, and ditches) that must be negotiated
broadly
: a series of obstacles that must be overcome
Examples of obstacle course in a Sentence
We finally made it through the bureaucratic obstacle course and got our visas.
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The challenge was a very physical obstacle course involving cargo nets, wide-step bridges, digging up ladders, opening rope gates and scaling ramps.
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
On water, take the challenge of the HydroDash, Singapore’s only floating aqua obstacle course.
—Elizabeth See, AFAR Media, 2 Oct. 2025
Ground station crews that today coordinate elegant sequences of thruster burns will face more chaotic obstacle courses and bigger debris fields blooming across their display monitors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025
What was meant to curb unnecessary tests and care has metastasized into a back-and-forth obstacle course of paperwork that can stall necessary treatment, ratcheting up stress and driving up costs.
—Dr. Nicholas Cozzi, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
On water, take the challenge of the HydroDash, Singapore’s only floating aqua obstacle course.
—Elizabeth See, AFAR Media, 2 Oct. 2025
Ground station crews that today coordinate elegant sequences of thruster burns will face more chaotic obstacle courses and bigger debris fields blooming across their display monitors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025
What was meant to curb unnecessary tests and care has metastasized into a back-and-forth obstacle course of paperwork that can stall necessary treatment, ratcheting up stress and driving up costs.
—Dr. Nicholas Cozzi, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for obstacle course
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“Obstacle course.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obstacle%20course. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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