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countable and uncountable, plural slaloms
(uncountable, sports) The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates. (Often used attributively) examples
(uncountable) Any similar activity on other vehicles, including canoes and water skis. quotations examples
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 Rejected would-be mercenary pilot, failed Jesuit novice, unpublished writer of pornography… yet for all these failures I had a tenacious faith in myself, a messiah as yet without
1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 1
(countable, sports) A course used for the sport of slalom. examples
(countable, sports) A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom. examples
third-person singular simple present slaloms, present participle slaloming, simple past and past participle slalomed
(intransitive) To race in a slalom. examples
(intransitive) To move in a slalom-like manner. quotations examples
Snow fell, swirled, slalomed past our windows.
1988, Edmund White, chapter 3, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994
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.
2013 October 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian