Dictionary

slalom en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈslɑː.ləm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈslɔ.ləm/ (General-American)
• släʹ-ləm (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (attributive, often, uncountable) 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.
   • 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 Rejected would-be mercenary pilot, failed Jesuit novice, unpublished writer of pornography… yet for all these failures I had a tenacious faith in myself, a messiah as yet without 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 1:
3. (countable) A course used for the sport of slalom.
   • These first two slaloms have sixty gates each.
4. (countable) A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom.
   • He has won six World Cup slaloms.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable) Short for autoslalom
   alt of autoslalom

Forms

Deriveds

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

Translations (27)

cs slalom (sports) · es eslalon (sports) · fr slalom (sports) · de Slalom (sports) · pt slalom (sports) · ja スラローム (sports) · sv slalom (sports) · cmn 障礙滑雪 /障碍滑雪 (sports) · fo snirr (sports) · ar تَزَلُّجٌ مُتَعَرِّج (sports) · de Slalom (race or competition) · fi pujottelukilpailu (race or competition) · io slalomo (sports) · sl slalom (sports) · cs slalom (race or competition) · ka სლალომი (sports) · ro slalom (sports) · no slalåm (sports) · ru сла́лом (sports) · fi pujottelurata (course used for the sport of slalom) · fi pujottelu (sports) · ca eslàlom (sports) · de Slalom (course used for the sport of slalom) · eo slalomo (sports) · fi slalom (sports) · pl slalom (sports) · hu szlalom (sports)

slalom en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈslɑː.ləm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈslɔ.ləm/ (General-American)
• släʹ-ləm (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To race in a slalom.
2. (intransitive) To move in a slalom-like manner.
   • 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. 2013 October 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
   • Snow fell, swirled, slalomed past our windows. 1988, Edmund White, chapter 3, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
   • 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. 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 365:

Forms

Translations (6)

fi pujotella (to race in a slalom) · sv åka slalom (to race in a slalom) · no kjøre slalåm (to race in a slalom) · fr slalomer (to race in a slalom) · no stå slalåm (to race in a slalom) · es eslalon (to race in a slalom)