après-ski
noun
social activities that take place after you have spent the day skiing
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a town in the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. state of Colorado, known as a place where rich people go for the winter sport of skiing
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a line of chairs that carry people up and down a mountain, especially people who want to ski
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the sport of flying in a helicopter to a place on a mountain and then traveling over the snow on skis (=long narrow objects that are attached to your boots)
adjective
off-piste skiing is not done on the marked pistes (=tracks) but on fresh snow that has not been skied on
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a steep hill for skiing that turns up at the end so that when people ski off, they travel through the air before landing
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a race, especially on skis, in which people move around a series of poles, turning first one way and then the other
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a long curved board that you stand on with both feet and use for sliding down a hill covered in snow
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the activity of floating on water or sliding on snow while sitting on an inner tube, as a way of having fun
to fall and have a big crash when you are riding something such as a snowboard or a surfboard
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a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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