obstacle course

noun

1. a military training area having obstacles, as hurdles, ditches, and walls, that must be surmounted or crossed in succession.

2. Informal.,  an event, situation, course of action, or the like that presents many challenges or difficulties.

Example Sentences

Learning to load a rifle, master the obstacle course and shoot targets was all par for the course in preparing for the series, but the advisors’ guidance and training was invaluable not just to the actors but to the entire production.

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Erin’s murder drove the A-plot, often weaving down the road through an obstacle course of misdirects and MacGuffins as the mystery of her life informed her death.

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The junior right-hander’s pregame obstacle course — navigating university staffers, media and more — before trotting down to the bullpen, was outside of the ordinary.

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It was an obstacle course to choose my words wisely and put Paul at ease about my intentions.

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Yet OK Go is still at it: Last month the group released its latest one-shot video for the song “Love,” for which Kulash and his co-directors installed dozens of mirrors on powerful robotic arms inside an old Budapest train station to create a kind of kaleidoscopic obstacle course.

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