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slalom

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English

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Etymology

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From Norwegian sla (steep, hill side) and låm (trail).

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Noun

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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slalom (countable and uncountable, plural slaloms)

  1. (uncountable, sports, often attributive) The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates.
    Slalom is her strongest Olympic sport.
    The slalom gates are set closer together.
  2. (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 Rejected would-be mercenary pilot, failed Jesuit novice, unpublished writer of pornography… yet for all these failures I had a tenacious faith in myself, a messiah as yet without
  3. (countable, sports) A course used for the sport of slalom.
    These first two slaloms have sixty gates each.
  4. (countable, sports) A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom.
    He has won six World Cup slaloms.

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Verb

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slalom (third-person singular simple present slaloms, present participle slaloming, simple past and past participle slalomed)

  1. (intransitive) To race in a slalom.
  2. (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.

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Czech

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Noun

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slalom m inan

  1. slalom (sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates)
  2. slalom (zigzag activity on non-ski vehicles, including canoes and water skis)
    vodní slalomwater slalom

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Further reading

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  • slalom”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • slalom”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

French

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slalom m (plural slaloms)

  1. (sports) slalom (event in skiing, kayaking or other sports)

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Descendants

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  • Romanian: slalom
  • Turkish: slalom

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Italian

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slalom m (invariable)

  1. (sports) slalom

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References

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  1. ^ slalom in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Norwegian slalåm.

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Noun

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slalom m inan

  1. (sports) slalom

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adjective
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Further reading

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  • slalom in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • slalom in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Noun

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slalom m (plural slaloms or slalons)

  1. (skiing) slalom (skiing in a zigzag course)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French slalom.

Noun

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slalom n (plural slalomuri)

  1. slalom

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative slalom slalomul slalomuri slalomurile
genitive-dative slalom slalomului slalomuri slalomurilor
vocative slalomule slalomurilor

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From German Slalom, English slalom.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /slǎlom/
  • Hyphenation: sla‧lom

Noun

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slàlom m (Cyrillic spelling сла̀лом)

  1. slalom

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References

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  • slalom”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Swedish

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Noun

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slalom c

  1. slalom

Usage notes

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Not used for the course itself.

Declension

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Declension of slalom
nominative genitive
singular indefinite slalom slaloms
definite slalomen slalomens
plural indefinite
definite

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