slalomとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Norwegian sla (“steep, hill side”) and låm (“trail”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: släʹ-ləm, IPA: /ˈslɑː.ləm/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈslɔ.ləm/
• 韻: -ɑːləm
• ハイフネーション: sla‧lom

名詞

slalom (countable and uncountable, plural slaloms)

1. (uncountable, sports, often attributive) The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates.

   Slalom is her strongest Olympic sport.

   The slalom gates are set closer together.

2. (uncountable) Any similar activity on other vehicles, including canoes and water skis.
   • 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 1:

     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 Rejected would-be mercenary pilot, failed Jesuit novice, unpublished writer of pornography… yet for all these failures I had a tenacious faith in myself, a messiah as yet without

3. (countable, sports) A course used for the sport of slalom.

   These first two slaloms have sixty gates each.

4. (countable, sports) A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom.

   He has won six World Cup slaloms.

5. (uncountable) Short for autoslalom

派生語

動詞

slalom (third-person singular simple present slaloms, present participle slaloming, simple past and past participle slalomed)

1. (intransitive) To race in a slalom.
2. (intransitive) To move in a slalom-like manner.
   • 1988, Edmund White, chapter 3, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:

     Snow fell, swirled, slalomed past our windows.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 365:

     Hiro climbs on his bike, eases it through the neighbourhood and onto the street, and then gosses it up to a few hundred miles an hour, slaloming between the stanchions of the monorail, practicing.

   • 2013 October 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian‎:

     Gerrard plainly had other ideas as he set off on that final, driving run into the opposition penalty area, slaloming between Kamil Glik and Grzegorz Wojtkowiak and getting his shot away as a third defender, Artur Jedzejczyk, and the goalkeeper, Wojciech Szczesny, tried to close him out.

アナグラム

• Mallos, Mollas, mollas, ollams