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glacading

glacading noun: the sport of sliding down a mountain on snow and/or ice. It is a technique used by climbers to get off a mountain fast when adverse weather conditions move in. For climbers they use an ice ax to stop their free fall at the bottom.

Noun

glacading (uncountable)

  1. The sport of sliding down a mountain on snow and/or ice. It is a technique used by climbers to get off a mountain fast when adverse weather conditions move in. For climbers they use an ice ax to stop their free fall at the bottom.

Questions about glacading

What does glacading mean?
Glacading means the sport of sliding down a mountain on snow and/or ice. It is a technique used by climbers to get off a mountain fast when adverse weather conditions move in. For climbers they use an ice ax to stop their free fall at the bottom.
What part of speech is glacading?
Glacading is a noun.

Words near glacading in the dictionary

  1. glabrous skin
  2. glabrously
  3. glabrousness
  4. Glabs
  5. GLAC
  6. glacading
  7. Glace Bay
  8. glace de viande
  9. glacette
  10. glacettes
  11. glaci-

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