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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A jump or leap made by a skier, especially one in which the skier is judged on both form and the distance jumped.
  • noun A course or chute prepared for such a jump, especially one that ends in a platform used for takeoff.
  • intransitive verb To execute a ski jump.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun skiing The ramp used in the sport of ski jumping
  • noun skiing A course prepared for ski jumping.
  • noun skiing A jump made in ski jumping.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a steep downward ramp from which skiers jump
  • verb jump on skis

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