0 a race in which runners have to climb over, under, or through a series of obstacles --
1 an area with a series of difficult objects that people climb over or go under or through as a form of exercise or in a race --
I refer now to the "obstacle course" about which the most wild stories have been circulated.
We should not make people go round a great obstacle course —we should be opening the doors wide so that people can go straight through.
It is an obstacle course in human, physical, spiritual and mental endurance.
For many people, getting in and out of and around their home is like negotiating an obstacle course.
The aid we provide should be rapid and based on solidarity, and it should not be held up by a bureaucratic obstacle course.
We should make it easier for them to register rather than create an obstacle course for them.
It is like an obstacle course for people who are trying to handle their problems and deal with their conditions.
She was unimpressed because it was slow, cumbersome, difficult to access and an obstacle course.