slalomn.

1921 British Ski Year Bk. 274 Slalom race on Inner-Arosa practice slopes.

1924 Brit. Ski Year Bk. 235 A downhill race and a Slalom competition.

1927 A. Lunn Hist. Ski-ing xviii. 227 However, the Slalom was worth a trial, and in 1922 the Alpine Ski Challenge Cup became a Slalom race.

1928 Morning Post 16 Feb. 13/3 Slalom racing at Muerren.

1950 Times 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.

1966 L. Deighton Billion-dollar Brain i. vii. 58 Three sets of skis..one set of which were slalom skis.

1972 C. Short Naked Skier i. 2 She did a slalom turn... I stood for a while looking at the ski tracks she had left.

1980 Daily 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.

1949 Sun (Baltimore) 25 July 14/1 Mary Lois Thornhill..yesterday added the slalom to the trick riding and jumping titles she won on Martin Lagoon.

1963 Newsweek 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.

1978 G. 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.

1956 N. McNaught Canoeing Man. vii. 86 Most local slaloms take place on weir-type courses.

1956 N. McNaught Canoeing Man. vii. 88 Slalom organizers must ensure that a rescue boat is always manned and ready.

1964 Slalom & White Water Course (Ontario Voyageurs Kayak Club) v. 12 His name is probably not mentioned in Czech kayaking literature.

1969 Publ. 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.

1969 Pubn. Amer. Dial. Soc. li. 1 The sport of whitewater kayaking was developed in the United States... Kayak slalom, the most complex form of kayaking, is a competition in which the kayakist or paddler must pass through a series of gates in the rapids.

1973 R. Fiennes Headless Valley vii. 111 Then in 1969 two Russians, expert slalom canoeists, set out to navigate the Liard.

1977 Herald (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.

1965 Listener 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).

1972 National Observer (U.S.) 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.

1974 Rules 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.

1976 A. 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.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 3 July 12/3 Slalom, as in skiing, going downhill and weaving around markers.

1978 Skatcat's Quiz Bk. (Royal Soc. Prevention of Accidents) 2/1 You need a 6″ wide deck to start with. Flexi for slalom. Stiffer for free-style.

1978 Cornish 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.

1973 Times 28 Sept. 36/5 Forty miles of pistes where you can schuss, trek, slalom, langlauf.

1976 Daily Tel. 30 July (Colour Suppl.) 9/1 What they are all doing is skateboarding—zooming and slaloming and ‘hanging ten’ and catamaraning on four-wheeled boards.

1978 Guardian Weekly 12 Feb. 24/3 Whether he is the world's greatest ever slalomer no-one can say.

1956 N. McNaught Canoeing Man. vii. 90 An individual slalomist who overturns is disqualified on that particular run.

1977 Skateboard Special Sept. 5/1 The best slalomists still use wide wheels to prevent the board wobbling at high speed.

1956 N. McNaught Canoeing Man. vii. 90 Strength and skill are needed for successful slaloming.