slalom/ˈslɑː.ləm/EtymologyFrom Norwegian sla (“steep, hill side”) and låm (“trail”).slalom means the sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.nounThe sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates.“Slalom is her strongest Olympic sport.”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 Rejected would-be mercenary pilot, failed Jesuit novice, unpublished writer of pornography… yet for all these failures I had a tenacious faith in myself, a messiah as yet without”A course used for the sport of slalom.“These first two slaloms have sixty gates each.”A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom.“He has won six World Cup slaloms.”verbTo race in a slalom.To move in a slalom-like manner.“Snow fell, swirled, slalomed past our windows.”