They're inexpensive, really rugged.

This is an incredibly rugged machine.

And of course, rugged goes without saying.

The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.

The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.

This is a rugged and barren landscape, yet there are quite a few spiders here.

With onboard GPS, it can navigate autonomously, and it is rugged enough to self land without damage.

With on board GPS, it can navigate autonomously, and it is rugged enough to self land without damage.

It's for Motorola's new Rugged cell phone, and yes, it really does say, Slap Mother Nature in the face.

For a long time, this is the image of American manhood that dominated tough, rugged, in control of his own environment.

Nevertheless, effects such as radar shadowing, layover (relief displacement) and foreshortening can complicate the visual interpretation of imagery of areas of rugged terrain.

Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

The terrain in Pitcairn is of rugged volcanic formation, with a rocky coastline and cliffs lining nearly the entire perimeter of the island, giving no easy access from the sea.

Americans have been blinded to these calamitous mistakes partly by a long history of racism, as well as by a misplaced faith in rugged individualism. For example, some white families have opposed public financing for education, because they believe that their tax money goes disproportionately to help poorer non white students.

I rode my butt off back there, says Colleen, a former US naval commander who has just completed a 25 mile bike ride along the spine of some rugged Croatian island and left nothing out there but a bucketful of sweat and a salvo of salty naval expletives hurled at the hostile hills.