slalom
See also: Slalom
English
editEtymology
editFrom Norwegian sla (“steep, hill side”) and låm (“trail”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: släʹ-ləm, IPA(key): /ˈslɑː.ləm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈslɔ.ləm/
- Rhymes: -ɑːləm
- Hyphenation: sla‧lom
Noun
editslalom (countable and uncountable, plural slaloms)
- (uncountable, sports) The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates. (Often used attributively)
- Slalom is her strongest Olympic sport.
- The slalom gates are set closer together.
- (uncountable) Any similar activity on other vehicles, including canoes and water skis.
- 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 1:
- 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 Rejected would-be mercenary pilot, failed Jesuit novice, unpublished writer of pornography… yet for all these failures I had a tenacious faith in myself, a messiah as yet without
- (countable, sports) A course used for the sport of slalom.
- These first two slaloms have sixty gates each.
- (countable, sports) A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom.
- He has won six World Cup slaloms.
Derived terms
editDerived terms
Translations
editsports
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course used for the sport of slalom
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race or competition
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Verb
editslalom (third-person singular simple present slaloms, present participle slaloming, simple past and past participle slalomed)
- (intransitive) To race in a slalom.
- (intransitive) To move in a slalom-like manner.
- 1988, Edmund White, chapter 3, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
- Snow fell, swirled, slalomed past our windows.
- 2013 October 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian[1]:
- Gerrard plainly had other ideas as he set off on that final, driving run into the opposition penalty area, slaloming between Kamil Glik and Grzegorz Wojtkowiak and getting his shot away as a third defender, Artur Jedzejczyk, and the goalkeeper, Wojciech Szczesny, tried to close him out.
Translations
editto race in a slalom
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Anagrams
editCzech
editNoun
editslalom m inan
- slalom (sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates)
- slalom (zigzag activity on non-ski vehicles, including canoes and water skis)
- vodní slalom ― water slalom
Declension
editThis noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
editFrench
editPronunciation
editNoun
editslalom m (plural slaloms)
Derived terms
editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “slalom”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editslalom m (invariable)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ slalom in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
editPolish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Norwegian slalåm.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editslalom m inan
Declension
editDeclension of slalom
Derived terms
editadjective
nouns
Further reading
editPortuguese
editNoun
editRomanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editslalom n (plural slalomuri)
Declension
editDeclension of slalom
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) slalom | slalomul | (niște) slalomuri | slalomurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) slalom | slalomului | (unor) slalomuri | slalomurilor |
vocative | slalomule | slalomurilor |
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editFrom German Slalom, English slalom.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editslàlom m (Cyrillic spelling сла̀лом)
Declension
editDeclension of slalom
References
edit- “slalom” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swedish
editNoun
editslalom c
Usage notes
editNot used for the course itself.
Declension
editDeclension of slalom | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | slalom | slalomen | — | — |
Genitive | slaloms | slalomens | — | — |
Derived terms
edit- slalombacke (ski slope used for slalom)
- slalombana (slalom course)
- storslalom (“giant slalom”)
References
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- English terms derived from Norwegian
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɑːləm
- Rhymes:English/ɑːləm/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Sports
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- en:Skiing
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech inanimate nouns
- Czech terms with collocations
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
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- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Sports
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/alom
- Rhymes:Italian/alom/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Sports
- Polish terms borrowed from Norwegian
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- Polish 2-syllable words
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- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/alɔm
- Rhymes:Polish/alɔm/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Sports
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese nouns with multiple plurals
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- pt:Skiing
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
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- Romanian nouns
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- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from German
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- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns