Definition of "orienteer" [orienteer]

• Someone who competes in the sport of orienteering. (noun)
• To race across unfamiliar countryside using a map and compass (verb)

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• "But I suppose because he now knew the course better and also because we ' d driven up with Fred Pilon , a world-class orienteer whom Bruce didn ' t want to embarrass himself in front of, he took off like a bat out of hell, Ms. Goldenberg and I struggling to keep up."
• "To verify a visit to each control site, the orienteer uses a paper punch to mark his or her control card; different punches at each control site make different patterns of holes in the paper."
• "I was in the lead, using my training as an orienteer and amateur sign cutter yet again to keep our transit silent."