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big air

big air noun: a discipline in freestyle skiing and snowboarding, involving sliding down a large launch ramp and then launching off a big kicker, to obtain height and time in the air to perform acrobatic maneuvers, and land on a landing slope.

Noun

big air (uncountable)

  1. A discipline in freestyle skiing and snowboarding, involving sliding down a large launch ramp and then launching off a big kicker, to obtain height and time in the air to perform acrobatic maneuvers, and land on a landing slope.

Origin of big air

From big + air.

Questions about big air

What does big air mean?
Big air means a discipline in freestyle skiing and snowboarding, involving sliding down a large launch ramp and then launching off a big kicker, to obtain height and time in the air to perform acrobatic maneuvers, and land on a landing slope.
What part of speech is big air?
Big air is a noun.

Words near big air in the dictionary

  1. bifurcous
  2. bifusiform
  3. big
  4. Big 4
  5. big agile
  6. big air
  7. Big Ambergris Cay
  8. big and bad
  9. big and tall
  10. big and ugly enough
  11. Big Ange

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