obstacle course

American  

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.

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Example Sentences

I designed a personal computing triathlon to find out: a swim through dozens of browser tabs, a 3-D cycling obstacle course and an agentic AI run.

From The Wall Street Journal

None of these are true gaming machines, but I still enjoyed playing the “Obby But You’re On a Bike” obstacle course and the space exploration-gone-wrong adventure “Beyond the Dark.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Show jumping pits a horse and rider against an obstacle course, where they clear fences against the clock.

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The logistical obstacle course they would need to navigate for the evacuation included soothing jumpy horses, scrambling for last-minute cargo flights and navigating Belgian bureaucracy.

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But for the 35 residents of Kapisillit, getting to that care is an obstacle course.

From Barron's