cross-country skiing
Nordic skiing
Cross-country skiing is easier to learn than Alpine skiing but it helps if you have skied before because you are used to sliding and balancing on snow.
Telemark requires different reflexes than alpine skiing, he explained.
In Alpine skiing, queueing for the ski lift has replaced whizzing down virgin slopes.
The 1936 Winter Olympics were the first to include alpine skiing.
The Austrian team won two gold medals in Alpine skiing yesterday.
The alpine skiing runs at Cypress Mountain were closed to the public.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Winter sports
airboard
airboarder
airboarding
après-ski
axel
biathlon
face off
figure skater
figure skating
forecheck
freestyler
ice rink
skating rink
skiboarding
skier
skiing
slalom
slap shot
sledge
sleigh