Slalom

Definitions

1. The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates.
   attributive, often, uncountable
2. Any similar activity on other vehicles, including canoes and water skis.
   uncountable
3. A course used for the sport of slalom.
   countable
4. A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom.
   countable
5. Short for autoslalom
   abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Slalom is her strongest Olympic sport.”

“The slalom gates are set⟳ closer together.”

“Disowned by my father... I began an erratic and increasingly steep slalom. Rejected would-be mercenary pilot, failed Jesuit novice, unpublished writer of pornography… yet for all these failures I had a tenacious faith in myself, a messiah as yet without”

“These first two slaloms have⟳ sixty gates each.”

“He has won six World Cup slaloms.”

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