slalom

as in to weave
to move suddenly aside or to and fro slalomed through the crowd with the ease of an Olympic skier

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Recent Examples of slalom The English youngster received the ball under pressure outside of the opposition’s box before slaloming his way towards the goal, nut-megging a Wolves defender on the way. Ben Church, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024 As the album slaloms between more traditional pop-punk and sonic twists both harder and softer, the production — done solely by Barker, a first for the band — is exceedingly slick. Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 20 Oct. 2023 Pinto successfully got a poke in to disrupt the slaloming run from Mukhtar. The Enquirer, 26 Mar. 2023 Never has a truck been so able to slalom, squeeze past and wedge in and out of traffic as this as squirt. Josh Max, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for slalom 

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“Slalom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slalom. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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