Course

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Course may refer to:

Directions or navigation

Course (navigation), the path of travel
Course (orienteering), a series of control points visited by orienteers during a competition, marked with red/white flags in the terrain, and corresponding purple symbols on the map

Course (education), a unit of instruction in one subject, lasting one academic term
Course of study, or academic major, a programme of education leading to a degree or diploma

Course (food), a set of one or more food items served at once during a meal. The main ingredient is often meat or fish. It most often follows an appetizer, soup, or salad.
Main course, the primary dish in a meal consisting of several courses.

Courses and rules, in show jumping, an equitation or equestrian obstacle course
Coursing, the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs
Golf course, an area of land designated for the play of golf
La Course by Le Tour de France ("La Course"), a women's professional road course bicycle race that accompanies Le Tour (Tour de France)
Obstacle course, a series of challenging physical obstacles an individual or team must navigate for sport
Race course, for the racing of people, animals, and vehicles

Course (architecture), a continuous horizontal layer of similarly sized building material, in a wall
Course (medicine), a regime of medical drugs, or the speed of evolution of a disease
Course (music), a pair or more of adjacent strings tuned to unison or an octave and played together to give a single note, in a stringed instrument
Course (sail), the principal sail on a mast of a sailing vessel
String course, a continuous narrow horizontal course or moulding which projects slightly from the surface of a wall
The Course, a Dutch dance music group
Watercourse, the channel that a flowing body of water follows