Etymology

slalom

sla·lom
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Today it means: The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates. Full definition →

Norwegian sla
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The story

  1. Norwegian · derived fromsla“steep, hill side”
  2. English todayslalom

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.