slalom

See also: Slalom

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: släʹ-ləm, IPA^(key): /ˈslɑː.ləm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈslɔ.ləm/
• Rhymes: -ɑːləm
• Hyphenation: sla‧lom

Noun

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, land vehicles, and water skis.
   • 2019, Gordon Korman, The Unteachables, page 2:

     But as we slalom up the driveway, swerving around parked parents dropping off their kids, and screech to a halt by the entrance, it turns out to be one motion too many.

   1. (figurative) A progression through a series of difficulties or sudden vicissitudes.
      • 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 Rejected would-be mercenary pilot, failed Jesuit novice, unpublished writer of pornography… yet for all these failures I had a tenacious faith in myself, a messiah as yet without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.

5. (uncountable) Short for autoslalom

Derived terms

• autoslalom
• banked slalom
• canoe slalom
• giant slalom, GS
• kayak slalom
• parallel giant slalom, PSG
• parallel slalom, PSL
• slalomer
• slalomist
• super giant slalom, Super G, Super-G

Translations

sports

• Arabic: تَزَلُّجٌ مُتَعَرِّج m (tazallujun mutaʕarrij)
• Catalan: eslàlom m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 障礙滑雪 / 障碍滑雪 (zh) (zhàng'ài huáxuě)

• Czech: slalom (cs) m
• Esperanto: slalomo
• Faroese: snirr n
• Finnish: slalom (fi), pujottelu (fi)
• French: slalom (fr) m
• Georgian: სლალომი (slalomi)
• German: Slalom (de) m
• Hungarian: szlalom (hu)
• Ido: slalomo (io)
• Japanese: スラローム (ja) (surarōmu)
• Norwegian: slalåm (no) m
• Polish: slalom (pl) m
• Portuguese: slalom m
• Romanian: slalom (ro)
• Russian: сла́лом (ru) m (slálom)
• Slovene: slalom (sl) m
• Spanish: eslalon m
• Swedish: slalom (sv) c

course used for the sport of slalom

• Finnish: pujottelurata
• German: Slalom (de) m

race or competition

• Czech: slalom (cs) m
• Finnish: pujottelukilpailu
• German: Slalom (de) m

Verb

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.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 365:

     Hiro climbs on his bike, eases it through the neighbourhood and onto the street, and then gosses it up to a few hundred miles an hour, slaloming between the stanchions of the monorail, practicing.

   • 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

to race in a slalom

• Finnish: pujotella (fi)
• French: slalomer (fr)
• Norwegian: kjøre slalåm, stå slalåm
• Spanish: eslalon m
• Swedish: åka slalom

Anagrams

• Mallos, Mollas, mollas, ollams

Czech

Noun

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 slalom ― water slalom

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• slalomář

Further reading

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈslaː.lɔm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sla‧lom

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norwegian slalåm.

Noun

slalom m (plural slaloms, no diminutive)

1. slalom

Derived terms

• parallelreuzenslalom
• parallelslalom
• reuzenslalom
• slalommen
• slalomskiën
• slalomwedstrijd
• slalomwinnaar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

slalom

1. inflection of slalommen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

References

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “slalom”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Further reading

• slalom on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

French

Etymology

Norwegian slalåm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla.lɔm/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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Noun

slalom m (plural slaloms)

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

Derived terms

• slalom incliné
• slalomer
• slalomeur

Descendants

• → Romanian: slalom
• → Turkish: slalom

Further reading

• “slalom”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, ultimately from Norwegian slalåm, from Norwegian sla (“steep, hill side”) and låm (“trail”)

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈslalom/ [ˈsla.lɔm]
• Rhymes: -alom
• Syllabification: sla‧lom

Noun

slalom (plural slalom-slalom)

1. slalom

Further reading

• “slalom”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzla.lom/
• Rhymes: -alom
• Hyphenation: slà‧lom

Noun

slalom m (invariable)

1. (sports) slalom

Derived terms

• slalom gigante
• slalomeggiare
• slalomista
• slalomistico

Anagrams

• smallo, smallò

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian slalåm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsla.lɔm/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -alɔm
• Syllabification: sla‧lom

Noun

slalom m inan

1. (sports) slalom

Declension

Declension of slalom

	singular	plural
nominative	slalom	slalomy
genitive	slalomu	slalomów
dative	slalomowi	slalomom
accusative	slalom	slalomy
instrumental	slalomem	slalomami
locative	slalomie	slalomach
vocative	slalomie	slalomy

Derived terms

adjective

• slalomowy

nouns

• slalomista
• slalomistka
• slalomowiec

Further reading

• “slalom”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “slalom”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Noun

slalom m (plural slaloms or slalons)

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

Further reading

• “slalom”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Norwegian slalåmbor.

French slalombor.

Romanian slalom

Borrowed from French slalom.

Noun

slalom n (plural slalomuri)

1. slalom

Declension

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Slalom and/or English slalom.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

slàlom m inan (Cyrillic spelling сла̀лом)

1. slalom

Declension

Declension of slalom

	singular	plural
nominative	slalom	slalomi
genitive	slaloma	slaloma
dative	slalomu	slalomima
accusative	slalom	slalome
vocative	slalome	slalomi
locative	slalomu	slalomima
instrumental	slalomom	slalomima

References

• “slalom”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Swedish

Noun

slalom c

1. slalom

Usage notes

Not used for the course itself.

Declension

Declension of slalom

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	slalom	slaloms
	definite	slalomen	slalomens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Derived terms

• slalombacke (ski slope used for slalom)
• slalombana (slalom course)
• storslalom (“giant slalom”)

References

• “slalom”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “slalom”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “slalom”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)