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slalom|ˈslɑːlɒm|
[a. Norw. slalåm, f. sla sloping + låm track.]
1. A downhill race in which skiers, descending singly, describe a zigzag course between artificial obstacles, usu. flags. Freq. attrib.
1921British Ski Year Bk. 274 Slalom race on Inner-Arosa practice slopes. 1927A. Lunn Hist. Skiing xviii. 227 However, the Slalom was worth a trial, and in 1922 the Alpine Ski Challenge Cup became a Slalom race. 1950Times 13 Feb. 7/5 The Kandahar Ski Club, which originated the modern downhill racing movement (the slalom is a British invention worked out at Mürren), still insists that its candidates shall pass a test in soft snow. 1966L. Deighton Billion-Dollar Brain i. vii. 58 Three sets of skis..one set of which were slalom skis. 1972C. Short Naked Skier i. 2 She did a slalom turn... I stood for a while looking at the ski tracks she had left. 1980Daily Tel. 26 Jan. 32 The shadow of Switzerland's Marie-Therese Nadig, who beat her in both the downhill and giant slaloms in the 1972 Winter Games.
2. Water-skiing. A run along a zigzag course defined by buoys. Also attrib.
1949Sun (Baltimore) 25 July 14/1 Mary Lois Thornhill..yesterday added the slalom to the trick riding and jumping titles she won on Martin Lagoon. 1963Newsweek 23 Sept. 66/3 Billy Spencer, the youngest of the 99 competitors in the world water-skiing championship at Vichy, France, finished his first slalom run. 1978G. Wright Illustr. Handbk. Sporting Terms 154/1 In Slalom—a timed run through two lines of buoys—half a point is awarded for every buoy successfully rounded and also for returning to within the boat's wake before the next buoy.
3. A race in which canoeists weave between obstacles, esp. along a course of rapid water. Freq. attrib.
1956N. McNaught Canoeing Man. vii. 86 Most local slaloms take place on weir-type courses. Ibid. 88 Slalom organizers must ensure that a rescue boat is always manned and ready. 1964,1969[see kayaking vbl. n.] 1969Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. li. 7 Slalom kayak,..a highly maneuverable kayak constructed with more curve rocker in the keel than a downriver or combination kayak. 1973R. Fiennes Headless Valley vii. 111 Then in 1969 two Russians, expert slalom canoeists, set out to navigate the Liard. 1977Herald (Melbourne) 17 Jan. 2/5 Kaine had a junior kayak for a year, but found it did not perform as well as the slalom boat his father built.
4. An exercise or contest in which a motor vehicle is driven along a zigzag course defined by markers. Also attrib.
1965Listener 15 Apr. 578/1 There is a keen following of motor racing among the Swiss: entries are not lacking in their speed hill climbs, rallies, and slaloms (or ‘wiggle-woggles’ between pylons). 1972National Observer (N.Y.) 27 May 19/2 Next came a slalom exercise through a long row of traffic cones. You must swerve the car to the right of the first cone, to the left of the second, back right around the third... It teaches braking and shows how much more your car can take and ‘do’ than you thought. 1974Rules of Game 297/1 Slalom, or autotest, competitions are a test of maneuverability. Cars attempt the course singly. Each car starts with 0 points and receives 1 point for each second taken and 10 points for each marker touched. The winner is the driver with the fewest points at the finish.
5. A similar race or activity in Skateboarding. (See also quot. 19762.) Also, a track suitable for this.
1976A. Cassorla Skateboarder's Bible 11 Slaloms could not be held on a steep grade or be set up with widely spread cones because of the poor turning capacity of the boards. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 3 July 12/3 Slalom, as in skiing, going downhill and weaving around markers. 1978Skatcat's Quiz Bk. (R. Soc. Prevention of Accidents) 2/1 You need a 6{pp} wide deck to start with. Flexi for slalom. Stiffer for free-style. 1978Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 13/4 The playgrounds were flat and the youngsters wanted the excitement of bowls and slaloms which the Polkyth park would have.
Hence as v. intr., to perform or compete in a slalom, to make frequent rapid (slalom) turns; ˈslalomer, ˈslalomist, one who slaloms; ˈslaloming vbl. n.
1956N. McNaught Canoeing Man. vii. 90 An individual slalomist who overturns is disqualified on that particular run. Ibid., Strength and skill are needed for successful slaloming. 1973Times 28 Sept. 36/5 Forty miles of pistes where you can schuss, trek, slalom, langlauf. 1976Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 30 July 9/1 What they are all doing is skateboarding—zooming and slaloming and ‘hanging ten’ and catamaraning on four-wheeled boards. 1977Skateboard Special Sept. 5/1 The best slalomists still use wide wheels to prevent the board wobbling at high speed. 1978Guardian Weekly 12 Feb. 24/3 Whether he is the world's greatest ever slalomer no-one can say. |