0 a race for people on skis or in kayaks (= light, narrow boats) in which they have to follow a route that bends in and out between poles
1 a race, esp. down a mountain on skis, in which the competitors follow a path that curves around a series of poles:
Figure 6 shows a slalom maneuver steered by a human driver trying to avoid three obstacles.
By rewarding both forward movement and the correct responses to left and right whisker stimuli, rats can be steered through a slalom or obstacle course.
It is proposed to construct a canoe slalom course alongside the barrage structure.
The events are a downhill, a slalom and a combined race in both the men's and women's categories.
The straighter sidecut allows skis to make long, fast, highly stable turns (radius around 30m for giant slalom, even more for most mogul skis).
Among the most popular are ice hockey, football, tennis, handball, basketball, volleyball, whitewater slalom or athletics.
It combined events from downhill and slalom skiing, cross-country skiing and ski jumping, as well as speed skating, figure skating and snowshoeing in some years.
He won a gold medal in the giant slalom with a combined run time of 2:03.15, 0.43 seconds faster than the silver medallists.
