OFF-PISTE Definition & Meaning

off-piste

[ awf-peest, of ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

on an unprepared, trackless area away from regular ski runs:
off-piste skiing.

off-piste

adjective

of or relating to skiing on virgin snow off the regular runs

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of off-piste¹

First recorded in 1955–60; off ( def ) + piste ( def )

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All three had anti-avalanche airbags and were skiing off-piste in the Mont Blanc massif mountain range.

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On Tuesday, a 55-year-old Brazilian-Portuguese skier was killed in a "very large" avalanche on an off-piste section Mont Blanc.

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Jacques Arnoux, mayor of Val-Cenis, told AFP each member of the group had been carrying an avalanche beacon as they were off-piste skiing.

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The avalanche fell in an off-piste part of Les Grands Montets where the 55-year old man had been skiing.

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Instead of pushing the Russian leader - indicted as a suspected war criminal - on his full-scale invasion of Ukraine and challenging his false assertions, Carlson swerved off-piste to talk God and the Russian soul.

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