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Ski jumping at the Winter Youth Olympics
Ski jumping at the Winter Youth Olympics: normal hill individual events for women and men plus a mixed team event, held since Innsbruck 2012; Gangwon 2024 winners Taja Bodlaj and Ilya Mizernykh.
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 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 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.
SkiFree
SkiFree is a 1991 Windows downhill skiing game by Microsoft programmer Chris Pirih, released in Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3, famous for the Abominable Snow Monster that chases skiers past 2,000 meters.
Skiing
Skiing: sliding over snow on skis for transport, recreation, and competition, from 9,000-year-old evidence to FIS (founded 1924, Chamonix), alpine and nordic disciplines, equipment evolution, and climate pressures.
Skiing in Australia
Skiing in Australia: snow sports in the Australian Alps (NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, ACT). Began at Kiandra 1861 with Norwegian miners; Perisher is the largest resort; season runs June to September with heavy snowmaking reliance.
Skiing in Europe
Skiing in Europe is a continent-wide winter sport built on thousands of ski areas across the Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites, Carpathians, and Scandinavia, led by France, Austria, and Switzerland.
Skiing in the Midwestern and Southern United States
Skiing in the Midwestern and Southern United States takes place at small resorts in the Great Lakes states and Southern Appalachians, sustained by heavy snowmaking near large populations.
Skijoring
Skijoring is a winter sport in which a skier is pulled by a horse, dog team, or snowmobile; competitive horse-drawn racing, popular in the American Mountain West, reaches 40 mph over jumps.
Slalom skiing
Slalom skiing: the technical alpine ski racing discipline of tightly spaced gates, raced in two runs; invented by Arnold Lunn, Olympic since 1936, lowest injury rate of the four alpine disciplines.
Slopestyle snowboarding
Slopestyle snowboarding: judged freestyle discipline on rail-and-jump courses; developed late 1990s via Burton Open, TTR, X Games; Olympic since Sochi 2014; 60/40 section and overall-impression scoring.
SnoCore Tour
SnoCore Tour, also written Sno-Core, was an annual US festival tour of alternative rock and punk bands marketed to winter sports fans, featuring Sublime, Primus, Blink-182, and System of a Down.
Snow Ruyi (雪如意) (Zhangjiakou ski jumping hills)
Snow Ruyi (雪如意), the National Ski Jumping Centre in Chongli, Zhangjiakou, China, hosted ski jumping and Nordic combined at Beijing 2022 and is named for its resemblance to a Ruyi sceptre.
Snowbird, Utah
Snowbird is a ski resort in Little Cottonwood Canyon in Utah's Wasatch Range, opened in 1971 and known for steep terrain, heavy snowfall, and its aerial tram.
Snowboard
Snowboard: sideways-stance board with bindings and metal edges used to descend snow; forerunner Snurfer (1965), Winterstick 1972, Burton 1977, Olympic sport since 1998 Nagano; camber, rocker, and hybrid profiles.
Snowboard construction and technology
Snowboard construction and technology covers how boards are built: a wood core, fiberglass, resin, steel edges, and camber or rocker profiles that determine grip and flex.
Snowboard cross at the Winter Olympics
Snowboard cross is an Olympic snowboarding discipline where riders race down a course of jumps, banked turns, and rollers in elimination heats, debuting at Turin 2006.
Snowboarding
Snowboarding: riding a single board with both feet strapped, descended sideways. From the 1965 Snurfer and 1972 Winterstick to FIS governance and 1998 Nagano Olympic debut; events include halfpipe, slopestyle, big air, snowboard cross, and parallel giant slalom.