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Definition: Ski Jumping |
Ski JumpingNoun1. The act of performing a jump of skis from a high ramp overhanging a snow covered slope. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Sports & Leisure | Approaching the take-off the skier rides down the in-run. . . during the flight. . . the jumper is evaluated on. . . his over-all body position. Source: European Union. (references) |
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The origin of ski jumping was in Morgedal, Norway, but the first proper competition was held in Trysil in 1862. The first widely known ski jumping competition was held in Husebybakken, Oslo, in 1879. The yearly event was moved to Holmenkollen from 1892, and Holmenkollen has remained the Mecca of ski jumping ever since. In addition to the separate sport of ski jumping, with the three events of "normal hill", "large hill", and "team competition", ski jumping is one of two elements in Nordic combined.
Using the modern V-technique, pioneered by Jan Boklöw of Sweden, world-level skiers are able to exceed the distance of the take-off hill by about 10 percent compared to the previous technique with parallel skis. Aerodynamics have become a factor of increasing importance in modern ski jumping, with recent rules addressing the regulation of ski jumping suits (following a period when "holes" in the rules seemed to favour skinny jumpers in stiff, "air foil"-like suits).
There have been attempts to spread the popularity of the sport by finding ways by which the construction and upkeep of practising and competition venues can
be made easier. These include plastic "fake snow" to provide a slippery surface even during the summer time and in locations where snow is a rare occurrence and the Ski jumping sling invented by Spede Pasanen which allows construction of an inexpensive and unobtrusive jumping tower.
Notable ski jumpers
See Also
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ski jumping."
Crosswords: Ski Jumping |
| Specialty definitions using "ski jumping": jumping ski ♦ SKI MAKER, WOOD. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Norway Ski Jumping Contests (1901) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ski jumping | 41 |
ski jumping picture | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "ski jumping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | sprunglauf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ジャンプ競技 (deuce, dugong, genre, jamboree, jewel, jewelry, joule, Juglar cycle, juice, juicer, juju music, juke-box, jumbo, jumbo-jet, jumbo-size, June bride, junior, junior welter, soft drink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ジャンプきょうぎ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iskay umpingjay backhoppning. (various references) kayakla atlama (ski jump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-j-k-m-n-p-s-u" | |
-2 letters: skimping. | |
-3 letters: impings, impugns, jumping, pigskin, spiking, spuming. | |
-4 letters: imping, impugn, juking, miking, mujiks, musing, pignus, piking, puking, siping, skiing, spuing, umping. | |
-5 letters: gimps, ginks, gunks, impis, jinks, jumps, junks, kings, minis, minks, minus, mujik, munis, piing, pikis, pings, pinks, pungs, punks, skimp, spunk, suing, using. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6B 69 4A 75 6D 70 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101011 01101001 00100000 01001010 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S k i   J u m p i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006B 0069 004A 0075 006D 0070 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537775244877982758073 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , tysk, alman |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japansk, Japonca |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | japaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japansk, Japonca |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | schwedisch, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | türkisch, turkisk, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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