Definition, Betydelse & Anagram | Engelska ordet SKIS

Definition av SKIS

1. böjningsform av ski

Exempel på hur man kan använda SKIS i en mening

• He led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, traversing the island on cross-country skis.
• Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport.
• Substantially longer than they are wide, and characteristically employed in pairs, skis are attached to ski boots with ski bindings, with either a free, lockable, or partially secured heel.
• This article primarily concerns the more ubiquitous land vehicles, which can be broadly classified by the type of contact interface with the ground: wheels, tracks, rails or skis, as well as the non-contact technologies such as maglev.
• Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski.
• Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing (cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings.
• Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp.
• It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and boxes on their skis.
• It is built with either a smooth underside or a separate body supported by two or more smooth, relatively narrow, longitudinal runners similar in principle to skis.
• The aircraft usually moves on wheels, but the term also includes aircraft with skis or floats (for water-based travel).
• In Old Norse common phrases describing skiing were fara á skíðum (to travel, move fast on skis), renna (to move swiftly) and skríða á skíðum (to stride on skis).
• Telemark skiing is a skiing technique that combines elements of Alpine and Nordic skiing, using the rear foot to keep balance while pushing on the front foot to create a carving turn on downhill skis with toe-only bindings.
• Straight-twin engines are primarily used in motorcycles; other uses include automobiles, marine vessels, snowmobiles, jet skis, all-terrain vehicles, tractors and ultralight aircraft.
• Skis with increasingly parabolic sidecuts accelerated the obsolescence of the stem christie, starting in the late 1990s, because of their improved turning characteristics over skis with minimal sidecut.
• The introduction of composite skis, metal edges, releasable clamping bindings, and stiff plastic boots combined to allow parallel turns even on beginner equipment.
• In theory, speeds could continue to increase by using even longer and steeper slopes; this would eventually change speed skiing into something closer to skydiving except with skis rather than a parachute.
• Ski boots are footwear used in skiing to provide a way to attach the skier to skis using ski bindings.
• This first machine used a grain silo conveyor belt as a track, a Briggs and Stratton motor, and an old Chevy bumper for skis.
• Barefoot skiing is water skiing behind a motorboat without the use of water skis, commonly referred to as "barefooting".
• At 8:00 am on July 29, they reached the top and then skied down without abseiling or removing their skis.

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