Challenge vs. Hurdle — What's the Difference?

A call to someone to participate in a competitive situation or fight to decide who is superior in terms of ability or strength

A hurdle (UK English, limited US English) is a moveable section of light fence. In the United States, terms such as "panel", "pipe panel" or simply "fence section" are used to describe moveable sections of fencing intended for agricultural use and crowd control; "hurdle" refers primarily to fences used as jumping obstacles for steeplechasing with horses or human track and field competition.

A call to prove or justify something

One of a series of upright frames over which athletes in a race must jump

Exposure of the immune system to pathogenic organisms or antigens

A problem or difficulty that must be overcome

Dispute the truth or validity of

A portable rectangular frame strengthened with withies or wooden bars, used as a temporary fence.

Invite (someone) to engage in a contest

Take part in a hurdle race

Expose (the immune system) to pathogenic organisms or antigens.

Enclose or fence off with hurdles

A call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition

A light portable barrier over which competitors must leap in certain races.

An act or statement of defiance; a call to confrontation

Hurdles A race in which a series of such barriers must be jumped without the competitors' breaking their stride.

A demand for explanation or justification; a calling into question

A leaping step made off one foot as means of maximizing spring at the end of an approach, as to a dive.

A sentry's call to an unknown party for proper identification.

An obstacle or difficulty to be overcome

A test of one's abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking

Chiefly British A portable framework made of intertwined branches or wattle and used for temporary fencing.

A claim that a vote is invalid or that a voter is unqualified.

Chiefly British A frame or sledge on which condemned persons were dragged to execution.

A formal objection to the inclusion of a prospective juror in a jury.

To leap over (a barrier) in or as if in a race.

A legal case testing the validity of an action taken, particularly by the government.

To overcome or deal with successfully; surmount

(Immunology) The induction or evaluation of an immune response in an organism by administration of a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.

To leap over a barrier or other obstacle.

To call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition

An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.

To invite with defiance; dare

(figuratively) An obstacle, real or perceived, physical or abstract.

To confront or struggle with (something) as a test of one's abilities

A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.

To take exception to; call into question; dispute

A sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.

To order to halt and be identified, as by a sentry.

To jump over something while running.

To take formal objection to (a prospective juror).

To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).

To bring a legal case testing the validity of an action, particularly by the government.

To overcome an obstacle.

To question the qualifications of (a voter) or the validity of (a vote).

To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.

To have due claim to; call for

(T-flapping) hurtle

To summon to action, effort, or use; stimulate

A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.

(Immunology) To induce or evaluate an immune response in (an organism) by administering a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.

In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.

To make or give voice to a challenge.

An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.

To begin barking upon picking up the scent. Used of hunting dogs.

To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.

A confrontation; a dare.

A light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races

An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.

An obstacle that you are expected to overcome;

A bid to overcome something.

The act of jumping over an obstacle

(sports) An attempt to take possession; a tackle.

Jump a hurdle

A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.

The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.

An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.

A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.

(legal) A procedure or action.

A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).

The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.

The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.

(US) An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.

(hunting) The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.

(transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.

(transitive) To dare (someone).

(transitive) To dispute (something).

To call something into question or dispute.

To make a formal objection to a juror.

(transitive) To be difficult or challenging for.

To claim as due; to demand as a right.

To censure; to blame.

To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).

To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.

To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.

The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.

A claim or demand.

The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.

An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.

An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.

To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.

To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.

To claim as due; to demand as a right.

To censure; to blame.

To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"

To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.

To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.

To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.

To assert a right; to claim a place.

A demanding or stimulating situation;

A call to engage in a contest or fight

Questioning a statement and demanding an explanation;

A formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror

A demand by a sentry for a password or identification

Take exception to;

Issue a challenge to;

Ask for identification;

Raise a formal objection in a court of law