obstacle course

noun

: a military training course filled with obstacles (such as hurdles, fences, walls, and ditches) that must be negotiated

broadly : a series of obstacles that must be overcome

Examples of obstacle course in a Sentence

We finally made it through the bureaucratic obstacle course and got our visas.

Recent Examples on the Web

At the immunity challenge, the three tribes had to work together over a long and complicated obstacle course that involved pulling a sled full of puzzle pieces, moving heavy sandbags, pulling the sled up a steep incline and solving a giant puzzle. —Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025

There will also be a 4.5-acre outdoor adventure lagoon, complete with an inflatable obstacle course, that's expected to open just in time for summer. —Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2025

The Gurin Company Key Shows Soccer Dream – Competition reality show committed to discovering young players who dream of being professional soccer players. League of Extraordinary – Primetime competition social experiment in which an entire country is turned into a giant obstacle course. —Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2025

The Cavaliers’ duo of Donovan Mitchell and Mobley, both All-Stars, won the annual skills challenge, emerging victorious in individual rounds of an obstacle course, passing contest and shooting competition over the host-Warriors’ Draymond Green and Moses Moody. —Joe Vardon, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for obstacle course

• bourse
• coarse
• force
• gorse
• hoarse
• horse
• norse
• source
• concourse
• divorce
• endorse
• enforce