telemark

See also: Telemark and télémark

English

WOTD – 3 December 2016

Linda Peer telemark skiing in powdery snow

Etymology

From Norwegian Telemark, a county in Norway, from Old Norse Þelamǫrk, from the genitive plural case of þelir (“name of an old Germanic tribe”) mǫrk (“borderland, march, mark, woodland”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛləˌmɑɹk/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: te‧le‧mark

Noun

telemark (countable and uncountable, plural telemarks)

1. (uncountable, skiing) Telemark skiing, a method of skiing using the telemark turn and a binding that only connects the boot to the ski at the toes.
2. (countable, skiing) A telemark turn.
3. (countable, ski jumping) A telemark landing.

Synonyms

• (telemark skiing): free-heel skiing

Derived terms

• telemarker
• telemark skiing
• telemark turn

Translations

telemark skiing

• French: télémark (fr) m
• Japanese: テレマークスキー (teremāku-sukī)
• Korean: 텔레마크 스키 (tellemakeu seuki)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: telemarkskjøring f

  Nynorsk: telemarkskøyring f

Verb

telemark (third-person singular simple present telemarks, present participle telemarking, simple past and past participle telemarked)

1. (skiing, intransitive) To take part in telemark skiing.
2. (skiing, intransitive) To perform a telemark turn.

References

• “telemark”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

• Telemark skiing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia