broken-field running.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

"Please -" Pesky pushed past him and covered the distance in a broken-field sprint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of a Deathtime]

He had to do some fancy, broken-field running to get out of the pen with getting pecked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Soldier]

When it sees my legs shuffling for a grip on the rock, it resorts to broken-field running.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spinning at Large] Reference

Tom zigzagged like a broken-field runner eluding a football tackier, but the crow followed his every move.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift Jr And His Giant Robot]

Cradling Sigurd in his arms, he wove through the cloister like a broken-field runner hurtling toward a goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars My Destination]

Cradling Sigurd in his arms, he wove through the cloister like a broken-field runner hurtling towards a goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiger! Tiger!]

During that stretch, he completed nine of nine passes for 72 yards, and his broken-field running kept USC guessing.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - On the biggest stage, Vince Young delivers for Texas] Reference

I ran through the trees like a broken-field quarterback, crashing over the undergrowth, weaving through the tree trunks directly at them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glass Rainbow] Reference

But the slow-moving crowd of idlers in the crooked street forced them to weave in and out like broken-field runners in a football stadium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden State] Reference

Plucky, too, was experiencing a touch of Montezuma's revenge but he nevertheless gave the greatest broken-field running performance of his career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Roadside Attraction]

The young man is Duddy Kravitz, a Sammy Glick by any other name, but a broken-field runner rather than one with his eye on the long distance crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiting for "Barney" (Mordecai Richler's version)] Reference

Helms, ever courtly, thanked me -- and off I didn't walk but ran, darting around people, through the concourse, down escalators and stairs, like a broken-field runner in a pick-up football game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dream Ticket Memories] Reference

But the Cardinals couldn't take control until Boldin turned a short catch on third-and-20 into a 54-yard, broken-field TD rumble, avoiding five tackles and eventually diving into the end zone with 10: 45 to play.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Scores] Reference

He jumped the dozen feet or so to the ground, began broken-field running across the back yard, the blondes still firing, and was climbing the fence between this yard and the next one over, when they finally found the range.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money, Money, Money]

Not in the least winded, Anderson segued into John Coltrane's "Central Part West," a cooled-down proposition not without a segment so challenging that Anderson's fleet tooting brought to mind an amazing display of broken-field running.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Finkle: Every Street's a Jazz Boulevard in Old New York] Reference

Certainly at least Le Fevre's Consolidated Warfare Service operation was bigger than the Pfltzner division, and Peacock Camera and Chemicals probably was too; Pfitzner, which was the pharmaceuticals side of the cartel, was a recent acquisition, bought after some truly remarkable broken-field running around the diversification amendments to the anti-trust laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cities In Flight]

The left half, Cox, was a broken-field runner of renown as well as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left Guard Gilbert] Reference

08: 03 Mrf. Sleep is broken-field running through damned nightmares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tweets I have known] Reference

He is extremely difficult after the catch because of his vision and broken-field running ability.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

But nobody that size, with that acceleration and with that balance and that ability to make you miss, has the broken-field ability that he has.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colts.com Football News] Reference

There is also an outside chance that Shane Williams, still the most dangerous broken-field runner in Europe, will make the England date on 5 February, despite the gravity of his shoulder problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Likewise Lileks is moonier than usual and hard to grasp, as here, where he mourns (after some broken-field running to disguise the vapidness of his theme from readers, and possibly himself) the godlessness that has left our Modern Arts shallow and brittle, unlike the works of the Immortal Beethoven etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [alicublog] Reference

Jim Dickey feinted in one direction, then jogged in the other like a broken-field runner, but he couldn’t wrong-foot the panther.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer of Deliverance] Reference

And so the broken-field running continues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Like Gangbusters] Reference

"Earl is a great broken-field runner, and so is Andre Pretorius.    From Wordnik.com.  [IOL: News] Reference

"Since the Wallaby game, we've been concentrating more on attacking from broken-field situations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference