été

Louisiana Creole: èté

Inherited from Old French esté, from Latin aestātem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”).


cork

Borrowed from English cork (“corkscrew”).

bor+

(snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) cork (An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.)


bout

From Middle French, from Old French bout (“a blow”), derivative of bouter (“to strike”), of Germanic origin. More at bouter.

à bout

to the limit, without any room for manoeuvre

de bout en bout

from start to finish, from one end to the other

ne pas regarder plus loin que le bout de son nez

ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez

regarder par le petit bout de la lorgnette


piste

→ Catalan: pista

→ Dutch: piste

→ English: piste

→ German: Piste

→ Greek: πίστα (písta)

→ Persian: پیست (pist)

→ Turkish: pist

Borrowed from Italian pista, variant of pesta (“footprint”).

piste de ski

piste de luge


lancer

Inherited from Old French lancier, from Late Latin lanceāre, from Latin lancea. Compare Catalan llançar; Italian lanciare; Occitan and Portuguese lançar; Spanish lanzar.


saison

→ Czech: sezóna

→ German: Saison

→ Greek: σεζόν (sezón)

→ Polish: sezon

→ Romanian: sezon

→ Russian: сезо́н (sezón)

→ Turkish: sezon

→ Ukrainian: сезо́н (sezón)

→ Dutch: seizoen

Inherited from Old French saison, seson, seison, inherited from Latin satiō, satiōnem (“act of sowing, planting”).

inh

season (one of the four parts of the year in temperate regions: winter, spring, summer and autumn)

La saison de ski

La saison des fraises

season (a certain time of the year, when something in particular happens)

(sports) season (the time of the year when teams compete)


Canadien

Le Canadien a entamé la deuxième moitié de saison sur une note positive en signant un difficile gain de 2-1 lors de leur premier match au Centre Bell depuis le 17 décembre.

2016 January 6, Michel Lamarche, “Rien de mieux que la maison”, in Réseau des sports, archived from the original on 2016-01-10:

The Habs started the second half of the season on a positive note with a tough 2-1 win in their first game at the Bell Centre since December 17.

(ice hockey) The Montreal Canadiens hockey club.


automne

Louisiana Creole: otònn

→ Franco-Provençal: ôton

From Old French automne, a borrowing from Latin autumnus. The inherited equivalent was après août (literally “after August”).


hiver

Louisiana Creole: livè

Inherited from Middle French hyver, from Old French hyveir, yver, iver, from Latin hībernum (tempus) (a borrowing, according to the Trésor de la Langue Française, and first documented in 1282), whence also Italian inverno and Spanish invierno. Closely related to Catalan hivern. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-m-r-ino-, from *ǵʰey-.


printemps

Louisiana Creole: printem

Inherited from Old French printans, from prime tans (“first time, first season”), from Latin prīmum tempus. Displaced Latin vēr.

Je veux visiter la France au printemps.


CDM

(sports, cycling, skiing) Initialism of Coupe du Monde. (World Cup (e.g., the World Cup of Skiing, or World Cup of Cycling))


géant

fr-noun

géant m (plural géants, feminine géante)

Inherited from Old French gaiant, jaiant, jaianz, from Vulgar Latin *gagantem, through assimilation from Latin gigantem, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”).


boucle

→ Catalan: bucle m

→ Esperanto: buklo

→ Galician: bucle

→ Greek: μπούκλα (boúkla)

→ Portuguese: bucle

→ Romanian: buclă

→ Russian: бу́кля (búklja)

→ Spanish: bucle m

→ Turkish: bukle

Inherited from Old French boucle, bocle, from Latin buccula (“the cheek strap of a helmet”), diminutive of bucca.


combiné

→ Turkish: kombi


saut à ski

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marteau

Back-formation from Old French marteaus, plural of martel, from Late Latin martellus, from martulus, variant form of marculus, diminutive of Latin marcus, or from malleus.

(curling) the advantage of throwing the last stone


perche

Inherited from Old French perche, from Latin pertica, through a contracted Vulgar Latin form *pert'ca. Compare Catalan perxa.


défenseur

fr-noun

défenseur m (plural défenseurs, feminine défenseure or défenseuse)

défenseurs (plural)
défenseure (feminine)
défenseuse (feminine)

→ Romanian: defensor

(ice hockey) defenseman (US), defenceman (Canada)


attaquant

attaquant m (plural attaquants, feminine attaquante)

attaquants (plural)
attaquante (feminine)


virage

desc

→ Persian: ویراژ (virâž, “swerve, veer”)

→ Romanian: viraj

→ Russian: вира́ж (viráž)

→ Turkish: viraj


ski de fond

Coordinate term: ski alpin

cross-country skiing
cross-country skiing


rondelle

→ English: rondelle

→ German: Rondell

→ Italian: rondella

→ Polish: rondel

→ Spanish: arandela (see there for further descendants)

→ Vietnamese: long đền, lông đền


Sainte-Flanelle

From sainte (“holy”) + flanelle (“flannel (shirt)”), implying a religious-like devotion among fans.

af

(Quebec, ice hockey) A nickname for the Montreal Canadiens Hockey team.


tapis roulant

→ Italian: tapis roulant


slopestyle

descente acrobatique
descente acrobatique#French

slopestyle surf des neiges
slopestyle surf des neiges#French

surf des neiges slopestyle
surf des neiges slopestyle#French

(skiing, snowboarding) slopestyle; Synonym of descente acrobatique

(snowboarding) Ellipsis of slopestyle surf des neiges or surf des neiges slopestyle.


hockeyeur

fr-noun

hockeyeur m (plural hockeyeurs, feminine hockeyeuse)

hockeyeurs (plural)
hockeyeuse (feminine)


arbalète

→ Belarusian: арбалет (arbaljet)

→ Bulgarian: арбалет (arbalet)

→ Portuguese: arbaleta

→ Romanian: arbaletă

desctree

→ Russian: арбале́т (arbalét)
→ Kazakh: арбалет (arbalet)

→ Turkish: arbalet

→ Ukrainian: арбалет (arbalet)

→ Uzbek: arbalet

Inherited from Old French arbaleste, from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus (“bow”) + ballista (“ballista”).


slalomeur

fr-noun

slalomeur m (plural slalomeurs, feminine slalomeuse)

slalomeurs (plural)
slalomeuse (feminine)


tremplin

Borrowed from Italian trempellino, from trempellare, from an unidentified Germanic form. Compare Middle Low German, Middle High German trampeln, Middle English trample.
Attested since 1680 while Italian trampolino is only attested since early 19th century.


revirement

→ German: Revirement


patinage de vitesse

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speed skating (the sport of racing around an oval course on ice skates)


Glorieux

les Glorieux (canonical masculine plural)

(Quebec, ice hockey, slang) the Montreal Canadiens (a professional ice hockey club in Montreal)


patinage artistique

LL-Q150 (fra)-Harmonia Amanda-patinage artistique.wav


surf des neiges

surf des neiges m (usually uncountable, plural surfs des neiges)

LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-surf des neiges.wav

(North America) snowboarding, snowboard (sport)


ski alpin

Coordinate term: ski de fond


tour du chapeau

tour du chapeau m (plural tours du chapeau)

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(soccer, ice hockey, North America) hat trick


jambière

(field hockey or ice hockey) pad, shinguard


bosseur

bosseur m (plural bosseurs, feminine bosseuse)

(skiing) male mogulist (moguls freestyle skier)


blanchissage

From blanchir + -age. Compare English clean sheet.


cueillaison

From cueillir + -aison. Cf. the Old French quieuçon, possibly from Latin collēctiō (whence modern French collection was borrowed).


grand saut

From being a jumping event on a large launching feature.


big air

(skiing, snowboarding) big air; Synonym of grand saut


super-combiné

super-combiné m (countable and uncountable, plural super-combinés)


ski para-nordique

(skiing) para nordic skiing; A parasport (“parasport”), an adapted version of nordic skiing (“ski nordique”)


paranordique

ski para-nordique
ski para-nordique#French

(skiing) para-nordic; Ellipsis of ski para-nordique.


gardien d'urgence

gardien d’urgence m (plural gardiens d’urgence, feminine gardienne d’urgence)

gardien d’ urgence (canonical masculine)
gardiens d’urgence (plural)
gardienne d’urgence (feminine)


Gretzky

Borrowed from Belarusian Грэцкі (Hrecki).

bor+

(ice hockey, figuratively) Gretzky; Ellipsis of Wayne Gretzky.


planche à neige

fr-noun

planche à neige f (plural planches de neige)

/plɑ̃ʃ də nɛʒ/

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sprint assis

para cross country skiing
para cross country skiing

(skiing) a race in a class of para cross country skiing, a type of sprint


caléfactoire

* Borrowed from Medieval Latin calefactorium.


demi-saison

→ Dutch: demi-saison

une veste de demi-saison

The temperate period between the extremes of winter and summer; spring and autumn.


piste verte

(skiing) beginner slope (a ski slope for inexperienced skiers, who may not have skied before)