What is "schuss"

Usage examples of "schuss".

He walked below it on the well-trampled snow and stood among the skiers at the top of the first plunging schuss of the Gloria run.

Then there was a short stretch of wood-running until the final easy schuss across the undulating lower meadows to the bottom cable-head, beyond which lay the main railway line and then the Pontresina-Samaden road.

Now he could afford to schuss the rest down to the hard left-hand turn round the shoulder.

Enzian in his stomach, started on the last mile of finishing schuss across the meadows to the right, away from the still hurtling river of snow.

Men from the back benches of von Schuss and deVree forced their way through the throng of observers clogging the back aisle and shoved the doors unceremoniously open.

The new lines marked out a basin east of Ednov, a basin that appeared to cover an area the size of Halarek and von Schuss Holdings combined.

Lady Agnes will keep him and Kit as separate as if he were at home on von Schuss Holding.

Then after a gradual schuss down to the road they broke off to fix their snow-shoes by the light of a hazy moon.

Craft decided to schuss around to the north side of the building, poking the snow in a speculative manner.

He was having a go at a schuss, on a flatter part of the slope, and it had carried him over to the far side of the piste.

He was carrying his steel ski pole, his favorite pole, the mate to which he had lost in an unexpected avalanche, while he was cutting across a mountain slope on his skis in a steep schuss the week before.

So it happened that only Bernice noticed the skateboarding punk-rocker of an Elder God on anabolic steroids who was accelerating ominously towards them from way back down the boulevard, sparks grating from the skateboard wheels, squatting in a kind of schuss position and gnashing her ominously long, needle-sharp teeth.

And now the waves were picking up, so that they spent many long seconds shooting up the side of one, then almost as many schussing down into the trough of the next one.

But when she touched down at White Mountain Airport she found bright sunshine, fresh powder, and a throng of like-minded ski nuts overflowing the resort town, all determined to await Gabriel's trump schussing their brains out.

Away from the club house, to which only a thin trickle of smart-looking people were making their way, he got into the usual mountain-top crowd - people swarming out of the cable-head, skiers wobbling or schussing down the easy nursery slopes on the plateau, little groups marshalled under individual teachers and guides from the valley.