big air

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A discipline in freestyle skiing and snowboarding, involving sliding down a large launch ramp and then launching off a big kicker, to obtain height and time in the air to perform acrobatic maneuvers, and land on a landing slope.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-big air.wav

Word forms

big air

Etymology

From big + air.

Related words

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.