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Definition of Ski jumping
1. Noun. The act of performing a jump on skis from a high ramp overhanging a snow covered slope.
Definition of Ski jumping
1. Noun. A winter sport in which skiers ski down a take-off ramp and attempt to jump as far as possible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ski Jumping
Literary usage of Ski jumping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In Viking Land: Norway: Its Peoples, Its Fjords and Its Fjelds by Will Seymour Monroe (1908)
"... museum — Hanko and summer resorts — Holmenkollen and winter sports — Skiing,
ski-jumping, and ski-sailing — Tobogganing, hill-sliding, and ice- pegging. ..."
2. Index to the Periodicals of ...American periodicals (1903)
"June, 196 Ski-Running, Ski-Jumping : The Wooden Wings of Norway, by AB Wilse (ill.
... Ski-jumping in Norway, by CE Borchgrevink (ill.), St N, XXX. ..."
3. Ski-running by Willi Rickmer Rickmers, D. M. M. Crichton Somerville (1907)
"Like other great sports, ski-jumping calls forth the qualities of courage, skill,
and endurance; a good jumper must have a cool head, a quick eye, and, ..."
4. Switzerland in Winter: Discursive Information for Visitors by Will Cadby, Carine Cadby (1914)
"When chatting this event over with him a few weeks ago a new light was thrown on
some of the after-effects of ski-jumping. We had been remarking that he was ..."
5. Ski-running by D. M. M. Crichton Somerville, Willi Rickmer Rickmers (1905)
"Like other great sports, ski-jumping calls, forth the qualities of courage, skill,
and endurance; a good jumper must have a cool head, a quick eye, and, ..."
6. A Book of Winter Sports: An Attempt to Catch the Spirit of the Keen Joys of by J. C. Dier (1912)
"A new record for ski-jumping was made in 1912 by Oscar Gunderson of Chippewa
Falls, Wisconsin, who jumped the amazing dis- ..."
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