How it works
Cross Country bubble letters on one sideways sheet in Fredoka: Cross over Country, twelve letters in eight shapes, both o's with a white ring. On two lines the words print nearly three quarters taller than on one.
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Signs along the course
After your first print, open Cross country words in bubble letters. Start, Finish, Finish / Chute, Loop, Mile 1, Mile 2 and Mile 3 mark a Race Course. On a flagged course red means Turn Left, yellow Turn Right and blue Straight / Ahead; Course / Flags heads the key. Hills, Woodlands, Open / Country and Natural / Terrain label a map.
Team signs and old names
Cross / Country / Team, Cross / Country / Meet, XC, XC Team and 5K suit a locker door. Harriers, Hare and / Hounds, Paper Chase and The Pack go back to the school game the sport grew from, in which hounds chased hares along a paper trail. Fast Start, Steady Pace and Run Your / Own Race are three race plans; Racing / Flats labels a shoe shelf.
- XC, two letters, prints about four times as tall as Paper Chase.
- A short third line such as Team costs Chewy about a quarter of its height and Fredoka very little.
- One letter per page, under More options, makes twelve upright sheets; C, r, o and s each come twice.
Questions and answers
How do you draw cross country in bubble letters?
Pencil Cross on one line and Country under it, with wide gaps. Round every stroke into a fat outline, match the two capital C's, leave a ring in each o and drop the tail of the y below the line.
What does XC mean?
XC is an abbreviation of cross country, also written X-C. The same two letters are used for cross-country skiing.
How long is a cross country race?
In the United States high school runners typically race 3 miles or 5 km. College women race 5 or 6 km and college men 8 or 10 km; courses in general run from 3 to 12 km.