slickrock

noun

slick·​rock ˈslik-ˌräk 

: smooth wind-polished rock

Examples of slickrock in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Get Out of Your Car The Fort Bottom Trail is a 3.4-mile out and back that leaves White Rim Road at mile 65 and meanders across the slickrock to the ruins of a stone structure built by the indigenous people that inhabited the area hundreds of years ago. —Graham Averill, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2025

Named for the pale slickrock that dominates much of the road’s terrain, the driving is a mix of sandy washes, rough rocky stretches and the aforementioned slickrock, which will occasionally take you to the edge of canyons. —Graham Averill, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2025

Start your journey with Cassidy Arch Trail, a 3.4-mile out-and-back that crosses broad sections of slickrock before ending at a 125-foot-wide natural arch. —Graham Averill, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025

The final descent hugged a handlebar-scraping wall and plummeted down two slickrock slabs as steep as playground slides. —Peter Rubin, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for slickrock

• alcock
• beanstalk
• bedrock
• boardwalk
• catwalk
• cornstalk
• crosswalk
• deadlock
• feedstock
• fetlock
• flintlock
• goshawk