English-Swedish translations for slalom

• slalom en
  Skidlärare Frattini har åkt skicklig politisk slalom mellan förhören, men han faller på att inte ha tagit en seriös kamp mot kollektiva utvisningar.Ski instructor Frattini has performed a skilful political slalom between the hearings, but he comes a cropper through not having put up a serious fight against collective deportations.
  Herr ordförande! Detta betänkande är ett beundransvärt och mycket bra formulerat försök att lägga en slingrande linje mellan olika motsägande megaintressen, en slalombana skulle en skidåkare säga.Mr President, this report is an admirable and very well formulated attempt to chart a course between various conflicting mega-interests, what a skier would call a slalom.
  Vill du med till Åre och åka slalom?
• åka slalom

Definition of slalom

• The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates. (Often used attributively
• Any similar activity on other vehicles, including canoes and water skis
• A course used for the sport of slalom
• A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom
• To race in a slalom

Examples

• Slalom is her strongest Olympic sport
• The slalom gates are set closer together
• These first two slaloms have sixty gates each
• He has won six World Cup slaloms

Related words

• slalomer
• slalomist
• slalom racer
• slalom skier
• do slalom skiing
• giant slalom
• banked slalom