Look up: orienteering

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   Orienteering
   Orienteering is a sport akin to cross-country running, but staged in less open terrain in which runners compete in navigating routes between isolated control points set up at defined positions within the areas of competition.
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   Orienteering
   `Orienteering` is a running sport involving navigation with a map and compass. The traditional form (sometimes referred to as `Foot Orienteering` or `Foot-O`) involves cross-country running, though other forms have evolved. The competition is a timed race in which individual participants use a special purpose map and a magnetic compass to navigate through diverse terrain (often wooded) and visit, in sequence, `control points` that are indicated o...
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   orienteering
   outdoor competitive sport that is similar to cross-country running, but with emphasis on map-reading and direction-finding skills. Through woods and ...
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/30