Apr 4, 2005 17:54
19 yrs ago
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French term

franchissement

French to English Other Sports / Fitness / Recreation
Mountain-bike obstacle course.

douze obstacles (franchissement, sauts de puce, slalom…) pour tester votre équilibre et votre technique
Proposed translations (English)
3 +2 (stream/creek) crossing
3 ramps
3 run through

Proposed translations

+2
24 mins
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(stream/creek) crossing

Looking at some of the links I found for the saut de puce question, I read lots of references to creek crossing (US) or stream crossing (UK). Sounds like *just* the kind of thing you'd get on an obstacle course to me. Think this one is therefore perhaps a bit more straightforward than the saut de puce.

It must be said though that even the English sites a are bit like a foreign language at times :-) That's the trouble with these hip sports, they like to make it tricky for outsiders to understand (see also surfing, snowboarding etc.).
Peer comment(s):

agree Gina W
52 mins
agree Kelvin Wu
8 hrs
neutral David Goward : Wondering if it's not just the act of tackling obstacles like logs and stuff. Definitely agree with the last bit though: found a site that refers to hee-haws, skinnies, hucking, zap-taps... what's all that about, eh?!!!
10 hrs
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15 mins

ramps

An idea. Because "franchissement" means crossing.
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6 hrs

run through

but I'm not a specialist in that field
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