[f. STEEPLECHASE sb.] intr. To ride or run in a steeplechase; to practise riding in steeplechases. Also transf. and fig. So Steeplechasing vbl. sb.
1816. in Racing & Steeple-chasing (Badm. Libr., 1900), 283. Steeple-chasing.
1856. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Rural Sports, II. II. ii. 379. Steeplechasing…. This once fashionable amusement was brought into notice about 25 years ago, avowedly for [etc.].
1866. R. M. Ballantyne, Shifting Winds, viii. (1881), 74. That is more arduous work than steeple-chasing!
1883. Pennell-Elmhirst, Cream Leicestersh., 233. Over fence after fence they steeplechased.
1887. H. Smart, Cleverly Won, xi. 96. There’s a good deal of uncertainty about steeplechasing.
1887. M. Shearman, Athletics & Football, 114. Steeplechasing is quite unknown at athletic meetings at the Universities.
1895. Westm. Gaz., 2 Nov., 3/3. He has steeplechased for twenty-nine years in England, Ireland, and India.
1905. Daily Chron., 16 Feb., 4/5. I … steeplechased over benches and iron bars, until I reached the best position in the Albert Hall.
