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slaloms

slaloms is the plural of slalom.

slaloms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of slalom.

Meaning of slalom

Noun

slalom (countable and uncountable, plural slaloms)

  1. (attributive, often, uncountable) The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates.
    • Slalom is her strongest Olympic sport.
  2. (uncountable) Any similar activity on other vehicles, including canoes and water skis.
    • Disowned by my father... I began an erratic and increasingly steep slalom. Rejected would-be mercenary pilot, failed Jesuit novice, unpublished writer of pornography… yet for all these failures I had a tenacious faith in myself, a messiah as yet without1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 1
  3. (countable) A course used for the sport of slalom.
    • These first two slaloms have sixty gates each.
  4. (countable) A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom.
    • He has won six World Cup slaloms.

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Questions about slaloms

What is slaloms the plural of?
Slaloms is the plural of slalom.

Words near slaloms in the dictionary

  1. slalomer
  2. slalomers
  3. slaloming
  4. slalomist
  5. slalomists
  6. slaloms
  7. slam
  8. slam back
  9. slam book
  10. slam books
  11. slam dance

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