Friday, February 26, 2010

Olympic Vocab

This week we learned the words, sorted them, presented them and saw then in action via video. Next week we'll do a formal sort, and have the test. Here they are to study, if you missed them!

Olympic Vocabulary Words and Definitions
Olympics - a global athletic contest

Alpine - a way to describe a high mountain area - like the Alps in Europe

hockey- a game played on ice between two teams of six skaters each

Canada - a nation in Northern North America

skiing- the sport of gliding on skis

bobsled- long racing sled with two sets of runners, a steering wheel and a brake

bobsledding - a winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled.

Nordic- of or relating to skiing events involving ski jumping and cross-country skiing

luge- a one- or two-person sled for coasting or racing down a chute

chute- a tube like slide

medal- a round metal award

skating -to glide over ice

freestyle- a competition in figure skating or skiing where any movement is allowed

ceremony- a serious formal event

torch- a stick of fire carried in the hand

snowboard- a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski

curling- a game played on ice in which two teams of four players each compete in sliding large stones toward a mark in the center of a circle

Vancouver- the city in British Columbia, Canada, where the Olympics is being held

venue- a place where a sporting event occurs

relay- a race involving the cooperation of many people

athlete- a person trained or gifted in sports

skeleton-   also known as tobogganing. is a fast winter sliding sport in which an individual person rides a small sled down a frozen track while lying face down

biathlon- a contest in which cross-country skiers, carrying rifles, shoot at targets at four stops

schuss - to ski down hill really fast

schuss bomb - to crash on skis, while skiing down hill really fast

avalanche - a destructive snow slide that starts high on a mountain and rushes down-slope at speeds of up to seventy MPH

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