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- noun skateboarding, snowboarding, etc. A structure used to perform tricks, approximately semicircular in cross-section, resembling the bottom half of a cylinder laying down.
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Examples
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Freestyle skiing is something of a daredevil sport -- a sort of trick skiing that uses the half-pipe, which is normally used by snowboarders.
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Freestyle skiing is something of a daredevil sport - a sort of trick skiing that uses the half-pipe, which is normally used by snowboarders.
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After Mika said something about them winning medals “on the half-pipe,” Joe followed up with “… and then they had a full pipe before the press conference.”
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Then there is Hodge, who repeatedly provokes and intimidates Quinn in the bowl and half-pipe as well as at his home.
Reviews 2010
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The obstacle that involved the most teamwork was a half-pipe where we climbed on shoulders and then got pulled up at the top.
Julia Plevin: The Ultimate Weekend Warrior Event Julia Plevin 2011
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Nah, diving is pretty cool, and half-pipe is fun, albeit pure gimmick.
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Then there is Hodge, who repeatedly provokes and intimidates Quinn in the bowl and half-pipe as well as at his home.
Books 2010
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That, or take out the subjectivity part - judge ski jump on distance only, possibly diving too, and mark half-pipe, gymnastics, moguls etc. by a much more transparent scoring system - this many points added or taken away for such and such an action ... in much the same way as recently happened with figure skating.
Winter Olympics grrm 2010
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Then there is Hodge, who repeatedly provokes and intimidates Quinn in the bowl and half-pipe as well as at his home.
Selections 2010
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Three years ago, the Otsego Club decided to spend $100,000 to add the Olympic half-pipe to the 40-plus trails and jumps in the snowboarding terrain park.
Olympians from around the world train at Michigan's Otsego ski resort 2010
hernesheir commented on the word half-pipe
Written examples of this apparatus used in extreme sports include half pipe and halfpipe. Never "half a pipe". Same goes for quarter-pipe, quarter pipe, and quarterpipe.
June 18, 2010