slopestyle

noun

slope·​style ˈslōp-ˌstī(-ə)l 

: a snowboarding or skiing competition in which participants perform tricks and jumps on a sloping course with multiple ramps and obstacles (such as rails)

… the International Olympic Committee announced last summer that it would add … slopestyle to the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia …

—Eli Saslow

Examples of slopestyle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In 2022, after three minutes of spinning, flipping and skiing down a slopestyle course designed to resemble China’s Great Wall, Alex Hall raised his arms triumphantly while accepting the Olympic gold medal. —Andrew Greif, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025

Uh, so more of like a slopestyle, freestyle aspect, but there's also sort of this like. —Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2025

The slopestyle and big air landscape has changed immensely in just three years. —Michelle Bruton, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

Rounding out that discipline’s podium was rising slopestyle star Mikkel Brusletto Kaupang, who qualified into the final through the Next X event. —Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for slopestyle

• campanile
• chrysotile
• domicil
• domicile
• mercantile
• neuropil
• nonpareil
• percentile
• peristyle
• reconcile
• thermopile
• aisle