hit the slopes

: to reach with or as if with a sudden blow

: to come in quick forceful contact with

: to strike (something, such as a ball) with an object (such as a bat, club, or racket) so as to impart or redirect motion

: an act or instance of striking or forcefully coming in contact with someone or something : an act or instance of hitting or being hit

: a stroke of luck

: a great success

: that slants : sloping

: to take an oblique course

: to lie or fall in a slant : incline

: go, travel

: ground that forms a natural or artificial incline

: upward or downward slant or inclination or degree of slant

: the part of a continent draining to a particular ocean