ultraendurance

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English

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Etymology

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From ultra- +‎ endurance.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ultraendurance (not comparable)

  1. (athletics) Involving sustained or consistent activity for a very long time.
    • 2023 November 1, Cara Ocobock, Sarah Lacy, “The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong”, in Scientific American[1]:
      If you follow long-distance races, you might be thinking, wait—males are outperforming females in endurance events! But this is only sometimes the case. Females are more regularly dominating ultraendurance events such as the more than 260-mile Montane Spine foot race through England and Scotland, the 21-mile swim across the English Channel and the 4,300-mile Trans Am cycling race across the U.S.