Crossword clues for telemark
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context skiing English) A telemark turn. 2 (context uncountable skiing English) telemark skiing. vb. 1 (context skiing intransitive English) To perform a telemark turn. 2 (context skiing intransitive English) To take part in telemark skiing.
WordNet
n. a turn made in skiing; the outside ski is placed ahead and turned gradually inwards
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Telemark is a county in Norway, bordering Vestfold, Buskerud, Hordaland, Rogaland and Aust-Agder. The county administration is in Skien. Until 1919 the county was known as Bratsberg amt.
Telemark is a county in Norway, the name originally referred to Upper Telemark.
Telemark may also refer to:
- Telemark cattle, an old Norwegian breed of cow
- Telemark Battalion, a Norwegian Army Mechanized Infantry unit
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Telemark skiing, a skiing technique
- Telemark landing, a ski jumping technique
- Telemark Lodge in northern Wisconsin
- The Telemark Operation, a World War II covert mission for Norwegian heavy water sabotage
- The Heroes of Telemark, a 1965 film about the sabotage
- Telemark (Waltz), a ballroom dance step
- TeleMark, an EEMBC embedded computing performance benchmark
The Telemark is a silver level waltz ballroom dance step. Telemarks are reverse turns where the follower does a heel turn as the leader travels around her. There are similar Telemarks in Foxtrot and Quickstep.
The term "Telemark" is a term borrowed from skiing, where turn is generated by a forward leg motion. The Closed Telemark and Open Telemark are fairly similar. However the Closed Telemark ends in closed position while the Open Telemark ends in open promenade position.
Usage examples of "telemark".
Signy, yes, could make a good foil for her half-brother if the treaty was annulled and Telemark was free to pursue its expansionary policy.
The disturbance resembled no weather pattern Telemark had ever known, and even as his hair prickled with alarm he dropped the axe and sprinted for the cabin.
In the instant the demon's whistle of anger clove his ears, Telemark saw his shaft rattle through the branches and cleanly miss.
While other men of Hallowild battled to rout the Dark-dreamer's horde of animated human remains, the forester, Telemark, sent his axe ringing into the trunk of a silver beech.
He was going too fast for any kind of stem turn, or even a telemark.