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Definition: Slalom |
SlalomNoun1. A downhill race over a winding course defined by upright poles. Verb1. Race on skis around obstacles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Sports & Leisure | An alpine form of competition in which the racer. . . /runs. . a course designated by a series of relatively tightly set in various combination to test his technique, speed. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A course is constructed by laying out a series of gates. Gates are generally formed from either two red poles or two blue poles. The skier must pass between the two poles forming the gate. (Strictly, the tips of both skis and the skier's feet must pass between the poles.)
For slalom the vertical offset between gates is around 9m and the horizontal offset around 2m, although these figures have changed significantly in recent times because of the huge technical developments in ski equipment which have revolutionised the sport. The gates are arranged in a variety of differents configurations to challenge the competitor. The world wide govening body, FIS (Federation Internationale de Ski) has a set of regulations detailing what configurations are allowed / mandated for an official course
Because the offsets are relatively small in slalom, skiers take a fairly direct line and often knock the poles out of the way as they pass. In modern slalom, a variety of protective equipment is used such as shin pads, hand guards, helmets, face guards.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Slalom skiing."
Crosswords: Slalom |
| Non-English Usage: "Slalom" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (slalom), Czech (slalom), French (slalom), German (slalom), Italian (slalom), Portuguese (slalom), Romanian (slalom), Serbo-Croatian (slalom), Spanish (slalom), Swedish (slalom), Turkish (slalom). |
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Screenplays | (to Dr. Noland) What's next, Doctor? A wheelchair slalom on the ambulance ramp? (Temperatures Rising; writing credit: Art Baer; Joseph Bonaduce) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Slalom (1965) Gran Slalom (1995) Slalom (1986) Tatort - Slalom (1981) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The slalom. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Slalom" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.29% of the time. "Slalom" is used about 140 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.29% | 132 | 27,743 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.57% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.14% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 140 | N/A |
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Expressions using "slalom": giant slalom ♦ slalom ski ♦ slalom slope. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "slalom": slalom-style. | |
Ending with "slalom": non-slalom. | |
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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. |
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Albanian | slalom, zbritje zigzage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تزلج متعرجا, تزلج متعرج, سباق في التزلج المتعرج. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слалом. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | slalom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pujotteluhiihto, pujottelu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | slalom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Torlauf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szlalom, műlesiklás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | slalom, fare lo slalom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 回転競技 , スラ 街 (bunting on two strikes, bust-waist-hip measurements, petticoat, sleep, sleeve, slim, slimmer, slip, slippers, slit, slum quarters, slump, slurry, three-piece suit, three-wheeled bicycle, vital statistics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かいて"きょうぎ, スラロー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alomslay slalom. (various references) slalom. (various references) слалом. (various references) slalom. (various references) slalom, eslalom. (various references) slalom. (various references) การเล่นสกี (skiing). (various references) slalom, zikzaklı kayma. (various references) слалом. (various references) cuộc thi trượt tuyết theo đường dốc có vật chướng ngại cuộc thi thuyền có vật chướng ngại. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "slalom": slalomed, slaloming, slaloms. (additional references) | |
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"Slalom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sallam, Salmo, Saloom, Salum, slanom, slolom, slolon. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "slalom" (pronounced slÄ"lum) |
| 4 | -Ä" l u m | column, solemn. |
| 3 | -l u m | alum, antebellum, asylum, bedlam, curriculum, diverticulum, emblem, exemplum, flagellum, fullam, golem, hoodlum, pablum, pendulum, phylum, problem, Solum, tantalum. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-l-m-o-s" | |
-1 letter: loams, malls, molal, molas, molls, ollas, salol, small. | |
-2 letters: alls, alms, also, lams, loam, mall, moas, mola, moll, mols, olla, sall, slam, sola, soma. | |
-3 letters: all, als, lam, las, mas, moa, mol, mos, oms, sal, sol, som. | |
-4 letters: al, am, as, la, lo, ma, mo, om, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-l-m-o-s" | |
+1 letter: mallows, maltols, mollahs, osmolal, slaloms. | |
+2 letters: allonyms, calomels, loamless, localism, loyalism, maillots, slalomed, smallpox, wadmolls. | |
+3 letters: ballrooms, balmorals, globalism, liposomal, localisms, loyalisms, lysosomal, malleolus, martellos, molluscan, molluskan, mothballs, plasmasol, slaloming, steamroll, tomalleys, villadoms. | |
+4 letters: alcoholism, allogamies, allogamous, allomorphs, allotments, ameloblast, amyloplast, armadillos, broomballs, collimates, cosmically, emulsoidal, episomally, gladsomely, globalisms, hyaloplasm, marvellous, medaillons, medallions, metalloids, molalities, mosaically, myeloblast, osmolality, papillomas, plasmasols, plasmolyze, romeldales, salmonella, smallmouth, smallpoxes, smallsword, steamrolls, symbolical, tamarillos, thralldoms, tomatillos. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 61 6C 6F 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. .- .-.. --- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01100001 01101100 01101111 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l a l o m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0061 006C 006F 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537867788179 |
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