"cover distance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the action of traveling, or making progress, towards a destination. For example, "We decided to cover the distance by car, rather than flying."
The triple jump is a balancing act: how to cover distance without losing speed?
Rheas are suited for life in wide plains, using long, strong legs to cover distance quickly.
"The big highways give that feeling of expanse -- the need to cover distance," said Ronald Primeau, a professor at Central Michigan University and the author of "Romance of the Road: The Literature of the American Highway".
Inspired by natural organisms that cover distance by growing – such as vines, fungi and nerve cells – the researchers have made a proof of concept of their soft, growing robot and have run it through some challenging tests.
Thus, a self-reconfigurable robot can first assume the shape of a rolling track to cover distance quickly, then the shape of a snake to explore a narrow space, and finally the shape of a hexapod to carry an artifact back to the starting point.
STEPS, an evaluation system for solar thermal power stations, was designed to calculate the performance of such power stations as a function of direct solar radiation, geographical conditions (land slope, land cover, distance from cooling water resources, etc)., infrastructure (pipelines, electricity grids, streets etc).
The French withdrew it only for the Spanish to block the vote to make a point about Gibraltar, Britain's colony on the south coast of Spain.Other directives, designed to encourage the development of open and secure retail markets, would cover distance-selling and the cross-border marketing of collective investments, such as mutual funds.
Some organized walks last for days and cover distances in excess of 50 miles.
Today's metro systems can be easily extended to cover distances longer than 500 km.
Coal slurry pipelines currently in operation in the United States and Europe cover distances ranging from a few kilometres to several hundred kilometres.
Children, mostly boys between the ages of nine and 18 have to cover distances of 15-30km to dig wells and fetch water.
