Picture two lanes side by side, and someone out of their own lane into the next one for a while. That crossing-over can be held as the whole idea of the word. You keep your main lane — the runner is still a runner, the cook is still a cook — but the time spent in the other lane wakes up what your own lane never asks for, and shows you what happens over there.

可以想成兩條並排的跑道,而有人從自己那一條跨到隔壁那一條走一段。這個「跨過去」的動作,一種想法是就是整個字的核心。你沒有放棄自己的主跑道——跑者還是跑者,廚房的人還是廚房的人。但在隔壁那條待過的時間會做兩件事:叫醒自己這條路從來用不到的部分,順便讓你看見那邊到底在忙什麼。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives the formation directly: cross- + training.

Wiktionary 直接記下這個字的組成:cross- 加 training。cross- 帶的就是「交叉、跨過去」的意思,所以整個字的畫面從字面上就看得出來。

Wiktionary, "cross-training"

One branch

跨到別的項目、別的職位

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mixed exercise · noun

Exercise that mixes several different kinds of activity — running one day, swimming or lifting the next — so that the whole body gets used, including the muscles your main sport leaves out.

交叉訓練