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  • verb Present participle of slalom.

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Examples

  • • I like brussels sproups, but only if they have been frozen on the vine (it makes them sugar) • When I walk I often entertain myself by visualizing points in front of me and "slaloming" around them following bezier curves.

    Weblogs 2009

  • Two minutes later Messi won the ball on the halfway line before beating three defenders in a slaloming run into the penalty area.

    Lionel Messi inspires Argentina to victory over Nigeria in Dhaka 2011

  • The "streamlined" mall creates less slaloming in and out of the flow of traffic for the buses.

    One thumb down on the new transit mall (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • He was hit six times by machine gun bullets that evening (including one which severed his right middle finger, and a chest shot which was stopped by his cigarette case), he would later transfer and train with the Royal Canadian Air Force, and learn to fly an artillery observation plane, becoming notorious for slaloming between telegraph poles to show it could be done.

    Five Famous People Who Fought On D-Day | myFiveBest 2010

  • A line of boarders came slaloming through the garden, laughing like hysterical demons.

    Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • The statistics vary, but as biology teachers like to insist, at least 70 percent of your body is water, so all that would be left would be a few teeth floating and, in a tragicomic swansong, a rubber duck slaloming among them.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • Every thought is hyperlinked, with one subject slaloming into the next in ways baffling and enlightening, confounding and profound.

    An easy label for Christopher Hitchens? Careful, it could be a fighting word 2010

  • The statistics vary, but as biology teachers like to insist, at least 70 percent of your body is water, so all that would be left would be a few teeth floating and, in a tragicomic swansong, a rubber duck slaloming among them.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • We saw Socrates ambling with monstrous cocksure arrogance to fluff his penalty against France; and the best Diego Maradona moment of the tournament, just after his slaloming goal against Belgium where he miraculously keeps his balance even while wheeling away to celebrate.

    Rolling World Cup nostalgia is the only sporting show in town 2010

  • Recent trends report the less we know of a candidate, the better their chance of slaloming through the chain link fence of character assassination known as the Senate Confirmation Hearings; thus we know more about Martian quantum physics than we do Ms. Kagan.

    Will Durst: Manhattan Flannel 2010

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