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ski lift
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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alt. A device that transports skiers up a mountain. n. A device that transports skiers up a mountain.
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A ski lift is a mechanism for transporting skiers up a hill. Ski lifts are typically a paid service at ski resorts. The first ski lift was built in 1908 by German Robert Winterhalder in Schollach/ Eisenbach, Hochschwarzwald.
Types of lifts are:
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Aerial lifts transport skiers while suspended off the ground. Aerial lifts are often bicable ropeways, the "bi-" prefix meaning that the cables have two different functions (carrying and pulling).
- Aerial tramways
- Chairlifts and detachable chairlifts
- Funifors
- Funitels
- Gondola lifts
- Hybrid lifts
- Surface lifts, including T-bars, magic carpets, and rope tows.
- Cable railways, including funiculars
- Helicopters are used for heliskiing and snowcats for snowcat skiing. This is backcountry skiing or boarding accessed by a snowcat or helicopter instead of a lift, or by hiking. Cat skiing is less than half the cost of heliskiing, more expensive than a lift ticket but is easier than ski touring. Cat skiing is guided. Skiing at select, extreme resorts, like Silverton Mountain, is also guided, even when skiing just off the lift.
Usage examples of "ski lift".
While I waited for her to finish, I pulled out several pamphlets at random, reading about midweek ski lift and lodging packages closer to Mammoth Lakes and Mammoth Summit.
They know I am careful, and when I needed money to buy the ski lift, they lent it to me.
A year later she purchased a ski lift, and that must pay handsomely when the snow cornea.
From where I was standing, I couldn't see the ski lift or the ski lodge atop the mountain.
A ski lift was there, but it didn't go up the slope she had descended.
You might remember that back in 1975, Earl Comstock fell, or was pushed, off a ski lift in Colorado, and broke his arms.
Everything at the summit-the old ski lodge, the rusting remains of the ski lift machinery, the rows of power poles, the strings of snow fences-was encased in a thick covering of ice.