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Croix Bethune
Croix Bethune (born 2001) is an American soccer midfielder from Alpharetta, Georgia; 2024 NWSL third overall pick, Rookie of the Year and inaugural Midfielder of the Year with Washington Spirit, 2024 Olympic gold medalist, traded to Kansas City Current in 2026.
Croix du Nord (クロワデュノール)
Croix du Nord (クロワデュノール) is a Japanese Thoroughbred colt by Kitasan Black, champion 2-year-old of 2024, winner of the 2025 Japanese Derby, 2026 Osaka Hai, and 2026 Tenno Sho (Spring), with 7 wins from 11 starts.
Croke Park
Croke Park (Páirc an Chrócaigh), Dublin 3, is the GAA's headquarters stadium, capacity 82,300, host of All-Ireland finals since 1896, site of Bloody Sunday 1920, opened to rugby, soccer, and NFL under Rule 42 exceptions.
Crokinole
Crokinole: Canadian disc-flicking dexterity board game on a 26-inch ringed board with a 20-point centre hole; 1876 Wettlaufer board, 1880 Ingalls patent, World Crokinole Championship in Tavistock, Ontario since 1999.
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, Sydney NRL rugby league club founded 1967, based in Sutherland Shire at PointsBet Stadium. Won first premiership in 2016, beating Melbourne Storm 14-12; known as Sharks since 1968.
Croquet
Croquet, a mallet-and-hoop lawn game (also called wickets croquet in North America), played as Association Croquet and Golf Croquet with six hoops, four balls and a peg; Wimbledon club founded 1868, Olympic sport in 1900.
Crosley Field
Crosley Field, opened as Redland Field in 1912, was the Cincinnati Reds' ballpark until 1970, hosting MLB's first night game in 1935 and the Reds' first World Series title.
Cross country running
Cross country running: off-road distance racing over grass, mud, and terrain, governed by World Athletics. World Cross Country Championships since 1973; Olympic event until 1924; East African dominance since 1986.
Cross-country course design and safety in eventing
Cross-country course design and safety in eventing covers how designers build difficulty through fence dimensions, terrain, and effort density, and how frangible technology and research have reduced rotational falls.
Cross-country cycling
Cross-country cycling is a mountain-biking discipline covering weeks to months, best known for the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail from Astoria, Oregon, to Yorktown, Virginia, opened as Bikecentennial in 1976.
Cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing, a Winter Olympic sport since 1924 (women from 1952), is human-powered skiing on narrow skis via classical and skating (free) techniques, governed by FIS, with a World Cup since 1981-82 and a fluorinated-wax ban.
Cross-country skiing (sport)
Cross-country skiing (langrenn, längdskidåkning) is an endurance ski racing sport with classical and skating techniques, Olympic since 1924, governed by FIS, dominated historically by Norway; Marit Bjørgen holds a record 15 Olympic medals.
Cross-country skiing at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiing at Milano Cortina 2026: 12 events (6 men, 6 women) at Tesero, Val di Fiemme, February 7-22, 2026; first gender-equal program with 50 km women's race and 4x7.5 km relays; Klæbo and Norway dominant.
Cross-country skiing at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2001–2023
Overview of individual cross-country races at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships from 2001 to 2023, covering the sprint debut, skiathlon, and 50 km format change.
Cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics, 1952–1988
Cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics between 1952 and 1988 spanned the debut of the women's 10 km at Oslo 1952 through Calgary 1988, ending when the IOC adopted a pursuit format.
Cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics, 1992–2022
Cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics from 1992 to 2022 covered individual men's and women's races at eight Games, from Albertville 1992 to Beijing 2022.
Crossfire (upcoming video game)
Crossfire (That's No Moon) is an upcoming single-player tactical action-adventure reimagining of Smilegate's CrossFire, revealed at Summer Game Fest 2026 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, featuring Adaptive Cover, protagonists Layla and Cross, no release date, and no multiplayer.
CrossFit
CrossFit: branded high-intensity fitness program founded by Greg Glassman (1996), built on daily WODs mixing gymnastics, weightlifting, and cardio; 15,000+ affiliates, CrossFit Games since 2007, injury rates comparable to weightlifting, rhabdomyolysis risk, 2024 athlete death and safety reforms.
CrossFit Games
CrossFit Games: annual "Fittest on Earth" competition, also called the sport of fitness, run by CrossFit LLC from a 2007 Aromas ranch origin through the worldwide Open to Semifinals and the Games, with divisions, scoring, prize money, records, and safety controversies.
Crossline
Crossline: a two-player pencil-and-paper game on 10 dots around a circle; each new line must cross exactly one existing line, and the player drawing the last legal line wins. Distinct from CoronaLine and Don't Cross the Line.
Crossway
Crossway, Mark Steere's 2007 drawless connection game played with a Go set; White links west-east, Black north-south, crosscuts forbidden, pie rule balancing; distinct from CrossWays and CrossWise.
Crossword
Crossword: word puzzle of interlocking across and down answers in a clue-numbered grid. Invented by Arthur Wynne as "word-cross" in the New York World, December 21, 1913; American and British cryptic styles differ.
Crossword abbreviations
Crossword abbreviations: shortened forms and single letters (N, R, L, DR, ER) used as answers or wordplay in crosswords; an abbreviated clue signals an abbreviated answer, per standard solving convention.
Crossy Road
Crossy Road: 2014 free-to-play 8-bit endless arcade hopper by Hipster Whale (Matt Hall, Andy Sum, Ben Weatherall), an isometric endless Frogger; 250M+ downloads, $6M in first 90 days from rewarded video ads; spawned Disney Crossy Road, Castle, +, and Rush.
Crow Country
Crow Country is a 2024 retro survival horror game by London indie studio SFB Games, released May 9 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Mara Forest explores an abandoned 1990 theme park seeking the missing owner Edward Crow; Metacritic 84.
Crown Jewel (2018)
Crown Jewel (2018), a professional wrestling event, was held in Riyadh on November 2, 2018. D-Generation X defeated The Brothers of Destruction, and Shane McMahon won the first-ever WWE World Cup.
Crown Jewel (2019)
Crown Jewel (2019), also called WWE Crown Jewel 2019, was a WWE pay-per-view on October 31, 2019 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where The Fiend Bray Wyatt won the Universal Title, Natalya and Lacey Evans contested the first women's match in Saudi Arabia, and Tyson Fury and Cain Velasquez made their WWE in-ring debuts.
Crown Jewel (2021)
Crown Jewel (2021) was a WWE pay-per-view event held on October 21, 2021 at Mohammed Abdu Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, headlined by Roman Reigns defeating Brock Lesnar.
Crown Jewel (2022)
Crown Jewel (2022) was WWE's fourth Crown Jewel pay-per-view, held November 5, 2022 at Mrsool Park, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, its eighth Saudi-partnership event; Roman Reigns defeated Logan Paul in the main event, and Damage CTRL's Dakota Kai and IYO SKY regained the women's tag titles.
Crown Jewel (2023)
WWE Crown Jewel 2023, the fifth Crown Jewel premium live event, was held November 4, 2023 at Mohammed Abdo Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Roman Reigns retained over LA Knight and Logan Paul won the United States Championship.