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Ski jumping hill records and record progressions
Ski jumping hill records and record progressions: official hill records, hill records, and longest jumps per hill. Men's world record 254.5 m (Domen Prevc, Planica 2025); women's 242.5 m (Nika Prevc, Planica 2026).
Ski jumping hills in Norway, Finland and Sweden
Ski jumping hills in Norway, Finland and Sweden covers Holmenkollbakken in Oslo, first jumped in 1892, and Vikersundbakken, a ski flying hill with a 240-meter hill size.
Ski Mask the Slump God
Ski Mask the Slump God, real name Stokeley Clevon Goulbourne (born 1996), is a Fort Lauderdale rapper and Members Only co-founder with XXXTentacion; his debut album Stokeley hit Billboard 200 number six in 2018, and 11th Dimension followed in 2024.
Ski mountaineering
Ski mountaineering (skimo) is a winter sport of alternating ski ascents on skins and off-piste descents, governed by the ISMF (founded 2007, IOC-recognized 2016). It debuted at Milano Cortina 2026 with sprint and mixed relay events and is confirmed for Alpes 2030.
Ski mountaineering at the Olympic and Youth Olympic Games
Ski mountaineering (skimo) at the Olympics and Youth Olympics: debuted at Lausanne 2020 YOG with Caroline Ulrich the first champion, and made its full Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026 with sprint and mixed relay events in Bormio.
Ski mountaineering by nationality
Ski mountaineering by nationality surveys the sport's national landscape, where France, Italy, Switzerland, and Spain dominate medals and depth, ahead of the sport's Olympic debut in 2026.
Ski orienteering
Ski orienteering (SkiO) is an endurance winter sport combining cross-country skiing with map navigation on a dense network of groomed tracks; fastest time wins. Origins in the 1890s, first World Championships 1975, governed by the IOF, a Recognised Olympic Sport.
Ski Orienteering World Cup
The Ski Orienteering World Cup is a series of ski orienteering races organized by the International Orienteering Federation over a winter season, first held officially in 1989.
Ski resort
Ski resort: a developed mountain facility with lifts, groomed runs, and lodging for snow sports. Key facts: first chairlift at Sun Valley 1936; one-third of ski areas make snow; 61.5 million US visits in 2024-25; severe snow risk for over half of European resorts at 2 degrees warming.
Ski school
A ski school is an organization that teaches skiing through certified instructors, ranging from resort-owned monopoly schools in North America to competing schools across Europe.
Ski School (film)
Ski School (1990, released January 11, 1991) is a Canadian raunchy ski comedy directed by Damian Lee, starring Dean Cameron as party-animal instructor Dave Marshak of Section 8, rival to preppy Reid Janssens; it flopped critically but gained a cult following and a mid-1990s sequel.
Ski season
The ski season, or skiing season, is the annual period when snow conditions let a resort operate its lifts, typically November to April in the Northern Hemisphere.
Ski suit
A ski suit, also known as a snow suit, is a one-piece or two-piece garment protecting skiers from cold, wind, snow, and dampness, available in recreational, freeride, and racing designs.
Ski Sunday
Ski Sunday, BBC Two winter sports programme from 15 January 1978 to its 2026 cancellation, hosted by David Vine, later Ed Leigh and Chemmy Alcott, famous for the theme Pop Looks Bach.
Ski touring
Ski touring, also called backcountry skiing or skinning, is human-powered skiing uphill on free-heel bindings and climbing skins, then locking the heel to descend; defined by touring bindings, skins, avalanche risk, and the 1984 Barthel pin binding.
Ski warfare
Ski warfare: military use of skis for movement and combat on snow, from medieval Norway and the Winter War to the US 10th Mountain Division and modern mountain troops.
Ski wax
Ski wax is a material applied to ski bases to reduce friction against snow, or to grip the snow during the kick phase on classic cross-country skis.
Skibidi
Skibidi is a nonsense slang word from a 2018 Little Big song, popularized worldwide by Skibidi Toilet, the 2023 Source Filmmaker YouTube series by Alexey Gerasimov (DaFuq!?Boom!) about singing toilet heads at war with camera-headed humanoids; added to the Cambridge Dictionary in 2025.
Skibidi Toilet
Skibidi Toilet: viral 2023 YouTube animated series by Alexey Gerasimov (DaFuq!?Boom!) about human-headed toilets versus camera-headed humanoids; later owned by Invisible Narratives, with a Michael Bay film and a rights dispute.
Skibo Castle
Skibo Castle, also known as the Skibo Estate, is a Scottish Baronial mansion on the Dornoch Firth in Sutherland, Scotland, rebuilt for Andrew Carnegie around 1900.
Skid row
Skid row: a rundown urban district of cheap lodging and homelessness, from Seattle's 1880s logging "skid road"; best known today as the 50-block Skid Row of downtown Los Angeles, the largest US concentration of homeless people and services.
Skid Row (American band)
Skid Row, an American hard rock band formed in 1986 in New Jersey by Rachel Bolan and Dave "Snake" Sabo, fronted by Sebastian Bach on its multi-platinum 1989 debut; its 1991 album Slave to the Grind was the first heavy metal album to debut at No. 1 on Billboard.
Skid Row (Irish band)
Skid Row: Dublin blues-rock band formed 1967 by Brush Shiels, Phil Lynott, Noel Bridgeman; Gary Moore joined 1968. CBS albums Skid (UK No. 30) and 34 Hours; split 1972; distinct from the American glam metal band.
Skid Row, Los Angeles
Skid Row, also known as Central City East, is a downtown Los Angeles neighborhood with the densest concentration of homelessness in LA County, several thousand residents on a few dozen blocks.
Skid-steer loader
A skid-steer loader, also called a skid loader, is a small rigid-frame machine that lifts and powers front attachments and steers by skidding, turning within its own length.
Skidamarink
Skidamarink, also Skinnamarink, is a nonsense-word children's love song from the 1910 Broadway musical The Echo by Feist and Piantadosi, made famous as the signature closing song of Sharon, Lois & Bram.
Skíðblaðnir
Skíðblaðnir (Skidbladnir) is Freyr's foldable ship in Norse mythology, made by the dwarf sons of Ivaldi, best of ships per Grímnismál, carrying all the Æsir with a fair wind, distinct from the largest ship Naglfar.
Skidmore College
Skidmore College: private liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York; founded 1903 by Lucy Skidmore Scribner as the Young Women's Industrial Club, chartered 1922; coeducational since 1971; motto Creative Thought Matters.
Skidmore Owings
Skidmore Owings is not a person but a truncated form of the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, referring to two NAE-elected SOM structural engineers, William Baker and Mark Sarkisian.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is an American architecture, urban planning, and engineering firm founded in Chicago in 1936, known for Lever House, the Sears Tower, and the Burj Khalifa.