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heliski

heliski is the alternative spelling of heli-ski.

Meaning of heli-ski

Verb

heli-ski (third-person singular simple present heli-skis, present participle heli-skiing, simple past and past participle heli-skied)

  1. To ski down a mountain or glacier that has been reached by helicopter rather than a normal ski lift.
    • I've guided heli-ski trips where we've been dropped on top of beautiful, untouched, 30-degree slopes.1997, Sharon Wood as cited in John Graham, Outdoor Leadership, page 106

Forms of heliski

third-person singular presentheliskis
present participleheliskiing
past participleheliskied
pastheliskied

Origin of heliski

From heli- + ski.

Questions about heliski

What is heliski the alternative spelling of?
Heliski is the alternative spelling of heli-ski.

Words near heliski in the dictionary

  1. heliportable
  2. heliports
  3. helipyrone
  4. heliquinomycin
  5. helis
  6. heliski
  7. heliskied
  8. heliskier
  9. heliskiers
  10. heliskiing
  11. heliskis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heliski (page history and authors); heli-ski (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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