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Good Skiing - Skiing glossary Category: Sport and Leisure > Skiing glossary Date & country: 16/11/2010, USA Words: 44

alpine
ordinary downhill skiing

après ski
whatever you do after you ski, e.g. get drunk, swimming, shopping

boot liner
soft stuff in your boots

boot shell
hard plastic boot coating

boot tree
boot-carrying device

bowl skiing
skiing on wide slopes with no trees

carve
to turn making a clean arc

diagonal stride
going forwards, pushing out diagonally. used in cross-country skiing

dropping
what a snowboarder shouts when he is 'dropping in' to warn others of his presence

dropping in
entering the pipe by means of either wall

drag lift
lift that drags you, rather than carrying you in a chair

edge
metal strip in skis and also verb to push skis into the snow

express chair
high speed chair lift

fall line
quickest route down the slope

fat skis
bigger than usual skis

flat
the flat bottom of the pipe between the two walls

flex
how much the ski bends

free riding
snowboarding across any terrain

freestyle
snowboarding with fancy maneuvers, e.g. jumps

get air
to jump in snowboarding

glade
slope with lots of trees

heli ski
helicopter skiing, used for accessing pure, powder nosw high up in the mountains

hit
ridge in the snow for jumping- how you 'get air' in snowboarding

lip
the acute angle at which the wall terminates

log slide
log used for sliding in snowboarding

micro ski
see 'ski boarding'

off-piste
skiing away from marked runs. can be dangerous, e.g. risk of avalanches, not patrolled

parabolic skis
hourglass-shaped micro skis (see 'ski boarding')

piste
slope

powder
fresh snow

run
when a rider completes the full length of the pipe, linking several 'hits' in the process

shell
un-insulated ski jacket

ski boarding
skiing using short skis with greater carving ability, unsuitable for deep snow

skierised car
car kitted out for skiers

snow blading
see 'ski boarding'

snow cat
a car on skis used to get to inaccessible areas

snow plough
braking manoeuver, by forming a triangle with your skis

super g
new downhill skiing discipline

transition
the angle arching between the 'flat' and the 'vert' of the wall

treeline
point at which the trees stop

vert
the top section if the wall that is completely flat

walls
the vertical sides to a pipe. These comprise two elements- the 'transition' and the 'vert'

wedge
braking manoeuver

t-bar
lift that pulls skiers up by a bar