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off-piste

off-piste adjective: not specially prepared or designated for skiing, hence viewed as more exciting but also more dangerous.

Adjective

off-piste (not comparable)

  1. Not specially prepared or designated for skiing, hence viewed as more exciting but also more dangerous.
    • Please stay away from the off-piste slopes.
  2. (figuratively) Deviating from what is seen as correct, usual or conventional.
    • His ideas are totally off-piste.

Adverb

off-piste (not comparable)

  1. In off-piste locations.
    • We are skiing off-piste this morning.
    • Some ski instructors are allowed to take groups off-piste too, so long as they don't travel across glaciers, but the tour hosts and reps who commonly show skiers around pisted runs within large resorts are definitely not allowed to go off-piste […]2014, Alun Richardson, Rucksack Guide - Ski Mountaineering and Snowshoeing, page 126

Antonyms of off-piste

  • on-piste

Origin of off-piste

From off- + piste.

Words formed from off-piste

Questions about off-piste

What does off-piste mean?
Off-piste means not specially prepared or designated for skiing, hence viewed as more exciting but also more dangerous.
What part of speech is off-piste?
Off-piste can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near off-piste in the dictionary

  1. off-off-Broadway
  2. off-off-Broadways
  3. off-off-off-Broadway
  4. off-off-off-Broadways
  5. off-peak
  6. off-piste
  7. off-pister
  8. off-pisters
  9. off-pitch
  10. off-plan
  11. off-prem

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