often attributive
1
: skiing in a zigzag or wavy course between upright obstacles (such as flags)
2
: a timed race (as on skis or in an automobile or kayak) over a winding or zigzag course past a series of flags or markers
broadly
: movement over a zigzag route
slalomed; slaloming; slaloms
: to move over a zigzag course in or as if in a slalom
Examples of slalom in a Sentence
Verb
slalomed through the crowd with the ease of an Olympic skier
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Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 15 June 2025
John won the National Off-Road Bicycle Association Championship in cross-country, downhill and slalom in 1988, and went on to accumulate several more titles before retiring in 2005 as the winningest mountain biker ever.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 6 June 2025
Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 June 2025
The Panthers survived an Aleksander Barkov delay of game penalty and McDavid slaloming through tired penalty killers only to be turned away by Bobrovsky’s stomach snow angel.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
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Noun
Marchand scored again for a 3-1 lead five minutes into the third period with a brilliant back and forth slalom past Oilers defenseman Jake Walman that all but left Walman corkscrewed into the ice.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 15 June 2025
John won the National Off-Road Bicycle Association Championship in cross-country, downhill and slalom in 1988, and went on to accumulate several more titles before retiring in 2005 as the winningest mountain biker ever.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 6 June 2025
Verb
That’s not entirely uncommon in college golf, but the programs at TCU had a few more logistical challenges to slalom than the norm.
—Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 June 2025
The Panthers survived an Aleksander Barkov delay of game penalty and McDavid slaloming through tired penalty killers only to be turned away by Bobrovsky’s stomach snow angel.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
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“Slalom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slalom. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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