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assault course

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Lycra-clad combatants, including Wolf, Warrior, Shadow and Cobra, became household names thanks to their prowess in the likes of Hang Tough and Duel, with challengers traversing an exhausting assault course in the Eliminator showdown.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2024

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

Negotiating the assault course of toddlers and pushchairs outside the Baby Show at Olympia in west London I am eager to see what all the fuss is about.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2016

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 John David Hills

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