half-pipe
nounEtymology From half- + pipe.
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Sports Usually A structure used to perform tricks, approximately semicircular in cross-section, resembling the bottom half of a cylinder lying down.
- But the kid who washed windows for $2 an hour when he was 8 so he could buy his first snowboard served notice he could be a contender at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics with a silver medal yesterday in men's halfpipe.2009 January 24, Randy Starkman, “Silver medal eases pain for Batchelor at world championships”, in Toronto Star:
- Related terms
- pipe, quarter-pipe, superpipe, slopestyle, tubular