assault course

British

noun

an obstacle course designed to give soldiers practice in negotiating hazards in making an assault

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Women reach for gloves and sweaters as they take turns hanging from an overhead assault course.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2024

The team would do the assault course and training there.

From BBC • May 31, 2023

During a demonstration Tuesday, it unleashed thousands of gallons of water, pushed a Chevy Chevy like a USC lineman with its plow and sped over an assault course of railroad ties with its grippy treads.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2020

Now he has swapped hemispheres, for the real snows of Scotland, and although the new film is not as bitingly violent as the last, it is an assault course for the senses.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2015

F. Bindley won the assault course and individual "pools."

From The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. by Hills, John David

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