slalom

See also: Slalom

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Norwegian sla (“steep, hill side”) and låm (“trail”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: släʹ-ləm, IPA^(key): /ˈslɑː.ləm/
• Rhymes: -ɑːləm
• Hyphenation: sla‧lom

Noun

slalom (countable and uncountable, plural slaloms)

1. (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.

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 Rejected would-be mercenary pilot, failed Jesuit novice, unpublished writer of pornography… yet for all these failures I had a tenacious faith in myself, a messiah as yet without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.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• giant slalom, GS
• parallel giant slalom, PSG
• parallel slalom, PSL

• slalomer
• slalomist
• super giant slalom, Super G/Super-G

Translations

sports

• Catalan: eslàlom m
• Chinese:

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

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

course used for the sport of slalom

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

race or competition

• Czech: slalom (cs) m
• Finnish: pujottelukilpailu
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• 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, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter Three,

     Snow fell, swirled, slalomed past our windows.

   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup (in The Guardian, 15 October 2013),^[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
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• Spanish: eslalon m
• Swedish: åka slalom

Anagrams

• Mallos, Mollas, mollas, ollams

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Czech

Noun

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

Derived terms

• slalomář

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla.lɔm/

• Audio:

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Noun

slalom m (plural slaloms)

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

Derived terms

• slalomer
• slalomeur

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

slalom m (uncountable)

1. (sports) slalom

Derived terms

• slalom gigante

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsla.lɔm/

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

• (nouns) slalomista, slalomistka, slalomowiec
• (adjective) slalomowy

Further reading

• slalom in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
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Portuguese

Noun

slalom m (plural s or slalons)

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Slalom, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English slalom.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

slàlom m (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