après-ski
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social activities that take place after you have spent the day 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 travelling over the snow on skis (=long narrow objects that are fixed 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
noun
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 vehicle that you sit on to travel over snow. It has long pieces of wood fitted to the bottom, instead of wheels.
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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
verb
in skiing, to slow down or stop by pointing the front of your skis towards each other
to fall and have a big crash when you are riding something such as a snowboard or a surfboard
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using the Internet where you work, during working hours, for activities which are not work-related
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