| Event: | Cross-country skiing |
| Games: | 1986 Asian Winter Games |
| Venue: | Nishioka Park |
| Dates: | 2–6 March 1986 |
| Next: | 1990 |
Cross-country skiing at the 1986 Asian Winter Games took place in the city of Sapporo, Japan with six events contested — three each for men and women.
| 15 km classical | |||||
| 30 km freestyle | |||||
| 4 × 10 km relay | Hirofumi Sokata Yuji Yamaishi Taniyuki Yuki Hidetsugu Sugawara | Cho Sung-hoon Hong Kun-pyo Park Ki-ho Jun Yeung-hae | valign=top | Kang Henglin Zhu Dianfa |
| 5 km classical | |||||
| 10 km freestyle | |||||
| 4 × 5 km relay | Lu Fengmei Song Shiji Tang Yuqin Chang Dezhen | Mayumi Ando Mika Ito Kazuko Nakajima Rumiko Yamamoto | valign=top | Ri Kyong-hui Kim Jong-hui |