This glossary will let you enhance your general knowledge about skiing. Then you will be able to better understand what's being said when you stop by the Skiset shop, or simply able to participate in the locals' conversations during your stay in the mountains.

 

Backcountry freestyle
Base
Bi-injection
Bindings
Buckles
Combined
Comfort
Core
Cross-country skiing
Curve radius
Downhill
Edge
Flat trick snowboarding
Flex
Freeride
Freestyle
Half-pipe		 Liner
Off-piste skiing
Outer shell
Rider
Shovel
Sidecuts
Ski jumping
Skicross / Boardercross
Slalom and giant slalom
Slopestyle
Snowboarding
Super G
Tail
Thermoforming
Tricks
Waist