[Scouting] Orienteering is a longtime component of Scouting programs such as the Boy Scouts of America and other Scouting groups. The BSA first class rank requires that scouts complete a one mile orienteering course by using a map and compass. The Scout must also measure the height of objects, such as trees, using simple trigonometry. Altho...
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outdoor competitive sport that is similar to cross-country running, but with emphasis on map-reading and direction-finding skills. Through woods and ...
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The art of navigation using map and compass. Sometimes engaged in as a competitive sport. See NEOC website
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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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Sport of cross-country running and route-finding. Competitors set off at one-minute intervals and have to find their way, using map and compass, to various checkpoints (approximately 0.8 km/0.5 mi apart), where their control cards are marked. World championships have been held since 1966
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a competitive sport, originating in Sweden, that tests the skills of map reading and cross-country running, in which competitors race through an unknown area to find various checkpoints by using only a compass and topographical map, the winner being the finisher with the lowest elapsed time.
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