The school was built into a down-slope, so the recess yard in front of the school was a flat pad of concrete below street level.
When it comes time to descend, there are two ways down: walk back down along the crest you climbed up or sand-ski down the slope.
Zorbing - effectively throwing yourself down a slope in a giant ball - was invented in New Zealand in 2000 and is now a popular extreme adventure sport around the world.
Meanwhile, a dog walker in Saltburn, Cleveland, was rescued by a police helicopter after falling down a steep snow-covered slope in a densely-wooded area.
As a sport, freestyle speaks to them far more than watching one skier after another race the clock down the same old slope -- Vonn or no Vonn.
We took a tester Rover through the nastiest muck, up snowy mountainsides and down the other side, through streams and headfirst into 4 feet of standing water down a 45-degree mud slope.
Plus the man who was once caught in an avalanche and now studies the maths of how they move by rolling ping-pong balls down a ski slope.
One might ask whether starting down this sticky, sweet-and-sour slope toward an unregulated market in lemonade will mean allowing just anyone to open a lemonade stand, food truck, or other unregulated, informal business that will compete with brick-and-mortar incumbents.
Those who choose the slope hop and zig-zag across and down, as if they're skiing.
The sediment grains bouncing along the bed get pushed up the rearward-facing slope (stoss) and then avalanche down the other side (lee).
Once YouTube has made the decision to pro-actively censor its content, they start down a slippery slope that ends in YouTube Knows Best moral policing of every video on their site.
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While featuring the same keyboard arrangement and operating style made popular by previous ClassPad calculators, the fx-CP400 is also fitted with keys that slope down from bottom to top, which helps prevent input errors when pressing vertically arranged keys.
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The skis dug into the lip of the slope, bringing the 450-pound snowmobile crashing down on him.
Otherwise, we will continue down the slippery slope of slowly strangulating our ability to develop new life-enhancing, lifesaving drugs.
But he also received perhaps the biggest break of the tournament when his shot into the par-5 13th spun back off the green and was headed down the slope into the tributary of Rae's Creek when it suddenly stopped, a blessing from a day spent in the rain.
But right-to-life groups and religious leaders see it as the first step down a slippery slope to full human cloning.
If air movement up and down the mountain's slope governed wind direction, dominant winds generally would be north-south.
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Will this not lead down a slippery slope to genetic segregation of the sort depicted in the genetic dystopias beloved of science-fiction?
The inquest was told the father-of-two suffered a serious chest injury when the vehicle he was about to drive rolled down a slope.
The large dials of the otherwise smooth center console seem pulled from old Lincoln radios, and the smooth slope from the brushed aluminum console down to the rear of the cabin are unabashedly American-car design cues that have long since disappeared.
The town of maybe a few hundred people is locked in a self-sustaining cycle of grief after a school bus slides off the road one morning, careens down a slope, and sinks in an icy lake.
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On either side of the road, up the green slope and down on the lake side, turnouts and driveways for lovely inns, kooky ersatz Austrian mini-villages, hip coffee houses and eccentric galleries appear invitingly like pictures in a pop-up book.
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