Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A skiing turn in which the knees are bent, the inside heel is lifted, and the weight is on the outside ski, which is advanced ahead of the other and angled inward until the turn is complete.
- intransitive verb To execute a telemark or to ski using this turn.
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- noun skiing A
telemark turn . - noun uncountable, skiing
Telemark skiing . - verb skiing, intransitive To perform a
telemark turn . - verb skiing, intransitive To take part in
telemark skiing .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Nonetheless, he related, the market has spoken and providing skis designated as "telemark" has become less important, thus making way for backcountry oriented brands (such as Black Diamond) which don't distinguish telemark from alpine or AT.
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To date I've skied 19 days this winter, both cross-country and telemark side note -- I feel pain in my legs when telemark skiing that far exceeds anything I ever felt in speed skating -- and I trained hard.
Kristina Groves: From Schedule B to Schedule Me Kristina Groves 2012
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A weekend doesn't go by that Bruce isn't testing his limits by entering some race or climbing some mountain buried in snow for the fleeting pleasure of telemark skiing down it.
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"And I was the fourth-ranked telemark mogul skier in America."
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A weekend doesn't go by that Bruce isn't testing his limits by entering some race or climbing some mountain buried in snow for the fleeting pleasure of telemark skiing down it.
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To date I've skied 19 days this winter, both cross-country and telemark side note -- I feel pain in my legs when telemark skiing that far exceeds anything I ever felt in speed skating -- and I trained hard.
Kristina Groves: From Schedule B to Schedule Me Kristina Groves 2012
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"And I was the fourth-ranked telemark mogul skier in America."
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Keith waded bravely in, past decades of castoffs—vintage bicycles, a dollhouse, telemark skis, parts of a Ping-Pong table.
AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE DAVID GOODWILLIE 2010
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I would gone skiing though, telemark skis, but that because I have never used snow shoes and I like to gliiiiiiide ;
False start to the new year Professor in Training 2009
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Wayfarer Scientista posted at 1:22 AM when I was learning to telemark ski we always referred to it as "going out to practice our face plants".
The cat days of February e 2009
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