Crossword clues for chairlift
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chairlift \chair"lift\ n. a ski lift on which riders are seated.
Syn: chair lift.
Wiktionary
alt. A continuously moving series of open seats, slung from overhead cables, used to transport people (especially skiers) up the sides of mountains. n. A continuously moving series of open seats, slung from overhead cables, used to transport people (especially skiers) up the sides of mountains.
WordNet
n. a ski lift on which riders (skiers or sightseers) are seated and carried up or down a mountainside; seats are hung from an endless overhead cable [syn: chair lift]
Wikipedia
An elevated passenger ropeway, or chairlift, is a type of aerial lift, which consists of a continuously circulating steel cable loop strung between two end terminals and usually over intermediate towers, carrying a series of chairs. They are the primary onhill transport at most ski areas (in such cases referred to as 'skilifts'), but are also found at amusement parks, various tourist attractions, and increasingly in urban transport.
Depending on carrier size and loading efficiency, a passenger ropeway can move up to 4000 people per hour, and the fastest lifts achieve operating speeds of up to or . The two-person double chair, which for many years was the workhorse of the ski industry, can move roughly 1200 people per hour at rope speeds of up to . The four person detachable chairlift ("high-speed quad") can transport 2400 people per hour with an average rope speed of . Some bi and tri cable elevated ropeways and reversible tramways achieve much greater operating speeds.
Chairlift is an American synthpop duo. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Chairlift consists of members Caroline Polachek (songwriting, vocals, synthesizer, drum programming, arranging) and Patrick Wimberly (drums, bass guitar, keyboard, guitar, backing vocals, production).
Usage examples of "chairlift".
Richard Wakefield was saying, "first priorities are the lightweight individual chairlifts by the right and left stairways and one heavy load elevator from the hub to the Central Plain.
But they had underestimated how long it would take them to install the lightweight chairlift, The concept was extremely simple and they had practiced it several times in the simulations.
Beside them on the Central Plain the ultralight motor and the self-contained portable power station for the chairlift were already in operation.
It was almost impossible for him to fathom the miraculous concatenation of events that had carried him from his boyhood home in Stratford to Cambridge to the Space Academy in Colorado and finally to here, to Rama, where he was riding a chairlift in the dark along the Stairway to the Gods.
He could barely discern Janos Tabori, the chairlift apparatus, and the half-completed campsite down at the bottom of the stairway.
We will finish the two chairlifts, carry the rover down for assembly later this evening, and all sleep in the campsite at the foot of the stairway as planned.
The frame showed a portion of the bottom of the stairway and the equipment for the chairlift as well.
She had a quick flashback to another chairlift ride, this one in Switzerland some two months before.
His throat caught and his eyes brimmed with tears of wonder on several different occasions: riding down the chairlift on his initial descent and looking out across the Central Plain with its long illuminated strips that were Rama's light.
Cautious by nature with her expectations, until this moment in the chairlift she had not allowed herself the intense pleasure of believing that she would ever again hold her beloved Genevieve in her arms.
I left a beacon at the bottom of the chairlift After I arrived at Beta and saw that you had removed the sailboat and its parts, I sent the rover back on automatic.
They both remembered the overpowering feelings they had had riding in the chairlifts in Rama and looking out across the Cylindrical Sea at the mysterious horns in the southern bowl.
Karen and I were flushed, slightly embarrassed, processing all these new bodily sensations while feeling transformedand then we rose up again, up the mountain on a bobbing chairlift that stalled halfway up the slope.
The chairlift then lurched forward a few feet, the lights flickered on, then stopped.
I stashed the envelope in my down jacket's pocket and then the chairlift jumped into motion again.