1) Barriers for an athlete 2) Hurdle race 3) Hurdling 4) Led rush to the barricades 5) Obstacles 6) Track event 7) Track meet lineup Found on https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/hurdles
[agricultural] Hurdles are a form of rural crafts. They are lightweight portable fencing structures that are used to enclose (or `fold`) animals such as sheep (i.e.: a sheepfold). In England & Wales they have often been woven from ash tree, willow or hazel withies, and made windproof with wattle, and so called `wattle hurdles`. There are al... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdles_(agricultural)
Hurdles are frames formed of perpendicular stakes with horizontal bars, and braced with diagonal pieces for the purpose of forming temporary fences. In fortification the name was given to a collection of twigs or sticks closely interwoven and sustained by long stakes, serving to render works firm, or to cover traverses and lodgements for the defenc... Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AH.HTM