langlaufとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

langlauf (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 langlaufs)

1. (uncountable) Cross-country skiing.
   • 1948, Arnold Lunn, Mountains of Memory, page 204:

     Horn's job was to push me down the steepest parts of the langlauf course in the pious hope that a few heavy falls would teach me more respect for Norwegian langlaufs.

   • 2010, Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, page 95:

     I'm buying a rowing machine, an exercise bicycle, a langlauf podium, a bullworker.

2. (countable) A langlauf run; a trip cross-country skiing.
   • 1935, Erich Kästner, Three Men in the Snow: A Story, page 55:

     There, overcome by the view and a sense of pure delight, one loses the last vestige of human reason, binds planks to one's feet and rushes downward, over wind-crust and powdered snow, over icy ridges and drifted fences, with jumps, turns, traverses, langlaufs and schuss-runs into the valley.

   • 1937, The Ski Bulletin - Volume 7, Issues 14-15:

     The winter of '98 saw the Sunset Mine kept open by means of what sounds like one of the toughest langlaufs of all time.

   • 1948, Arnold Lunn, Mountains of Memory, page 204:

     Horn's job was to push me down the steepest parts of the langlauf course in the pious hope that a few heavy falls would teach me more respect for Norwegian langlaufs.

   • 1949, Louis R. Oshins, Champions' Book of Sports, page 137:

     He went on langlaufs to develop endurance.

   • 1964, Walkabout - Volume 30:

     Those who were drinking "sipped at long glasses of gluhwein, a delicious concoction of warmed burgundy, cinnamon and raisins, and chattered about the day's runs, about technical aspects of langlaufs, cornices, laniéres and christies.

動詞

langlauf (三人称単数 現在形 langlaufs, 現在分詞 langlaufing, 過去形および過去分詞形 langlaufed)

1. To go cross-country skiing.
   • 1970 October, “Ski Sayings”, in Skiing, volume 23, number 2, page 158:

     He who langlaufs last langlaufs longest.

   • 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, p. 286:

     ‘Weekends the family make excursions. Romp in the woods, langlauf, play badminton.’

   • 1996, Jack Higgins, The Valhalla Exchange, page 251:

     He langlaufed across the small plateau that tilted gently upward, and paused on the ridge.

   • 2011 Nov-Dec, “Winter Carnival Centennial”, in Skiing Heritage Journal, volume 23, number 6, page 6:

     They langlaufed into Hot Sulphur Springs at 9 p.m., and found the Grand Ball in progress.

   • 2012, Norman N. Greenwood, Recollections of a Scientist: Boyhood and Youth in Australia:

     We then langlaufed over to 'Higgie' (Mt Higginbottom) and finally back to the Diamantina about 3.30.

派生語

• langlaufer