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/ˈslɑː.ləm/ · noun
(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.
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 Rejected would-be mercenary pilot, failed Jesuit novice, unpublished writer of pornography… yet for all these failures I had a tenacious faith in myself, a messiah as yet without
These first two slaloms have sixty gates each.
He has won six World Cup slaloms.
Snow fell, swirled, slalomed past our windows.
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.
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.
Use slalom when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Slalom means (uncountable, sports, often attributive) The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Slalom is her strongest Olympic sport.
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