slalom

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

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: släʹ-ləm, IPA^(key): /ˈslɑː.ləm/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈslɔ.ləm/
• Rhymes: -ɑːləm
• Hyphenation: sla‧lom

slalom (countable and uncountable, plural slaloms)

1. (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.

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 Rejected would-be mercenary pilot, failed Jesuit novice, unpublished writer of pornography… yet for all these failures I had a tenacious faith in myself, a messiah as yet without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

5. (uncountable) Short for autoslalom

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, chapter 3, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:

     Snow fell, swirled, slalomed past our windows.

   • 2013 October 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian‎^[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.

• Mallos, Mollas, mollas, ollams

slalom m inan

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 ― water slalom

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “slalom”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “slalom”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /sla.lɔm/

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slalom m (plural slaloms)

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

• slalomer
• slalomeur

• → Romanian: slalom
• → Turkish: slalom

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈzla.lom/^[1]
• Rhymes: -alom
• Hyphenation: slà‧lom

slalom m (invariable)

1. (sports) slalom

• slalom gigante
• slalomeggiare
• slalomista
• slalomistico

• smallo, smallò

Borrowed from Norwegian slalåm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsla.lɔm/

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• Rhymes: -alɔm
• Syllabification: sla‧lom

slalom m inan

1. (sports) slalom

• slalom in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• slalom in Polish dictionaries at PWN

slalom m (plural slaloms or slalons)

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

Borrowed from French slalom.

slalom n (plural slalomuri)

1. slalom

Borrowed from German Slalom and/or English slalom.

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

slàlom m inan (Cyrillic spelling сла̀лом)

1. slalom

• “slalom”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

slalom c

1. slalom

Not used for the course itself.

• slalombacke (ski slope used for slalom)
• slalombana (slalom course)
• storslalom (“giant slalom”)

• slalom in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• slalom in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• slalom in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)