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'orienteering' is a correct and usable word in written English
It refers to the activity of navigating one's way through unfamiliar terrain using a map and compass. You can use it when talking and writing about the sport of finding one's way from point to point in a set amount of time. For example: "John won the orienteering competition by finding all the checkpoints in the fastest time."
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orienteering
noun
Racing across unfamiliar countryside using a map and compass
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Sometime around 2000, I learned about Crossword Compiler, bought it, and started making easy, themed puzzles for holidays and birthdays, and puzzles with orienteering themes for my local club newsletter.
Orienteering for Beginners, workshop on navigational skills and reading maps.
In between you'll find Swedish lawn games, ice-bicycle races and orienteering contests on skis.
I'm not going rafting or spelunking or orienteering any time soon.
Jo Debens, a geography teacher at Priory School, Portsmouth, a comprehensive with a mixed intake, was dashing out to take 30 pupils orienteering when we spoke: her students were testing whether it was easier to use an OS map or a mobile phone's mapping services.
Comfort zones are being bulldozed in pursuit of Pokéballs – and in a tetchy, post-Philando Castile US, orienteering past the nation's unspoken racial zoning can feel particularly uncomfortable.
Personally I hope that The Selected Works of TS Spivet sells handsomely enough to reward the author's audacity, but not so well that another pack of child genius novels come orienteering into view.
Given the still heavily gendered driver behaviour that makes male under-25s the most dangerous motorists, and men almost twice as likely as women to crash because of poor driving habits, there are reasons for women, in particular, to welcome the coming deliverance from tailgating and speeding road-users and the cessation of driving, orienteering and parking hints from male passengers.
My official title is corporate training and developmental coordinator, which means I run courses for groups that involve a lot of physical activity: it might be kayaking, or climbing, or orienteering.
He went on to have a post-Olympics career as breathless as his Melbourne victory: sports editor at The Observer, then an executive at the BBC, and a successful entrepreneur who launched his own footwear brand and introduced orienteering to the UK.
His righteous authority is made all the more irritating by what he is wearing: an impeccable aqua parka, with a round red-white-and-blue patch depicting the Arctic Circle on the sleeve, like a badge for orienteering.
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