a race for people on skis or in canoes along a winding course marked by poles （滑雪）回转赛；（皮划艇）激流回旋，障碍回旋 to win the slalom 赢得激流回旋 the giant slalom 大回转
Oxford Collocations DictionarySlalom is used before these nouns:- ski
Word Origin1920s: from Norwegian, literally ‘sloping track’.