telemark
noun
tel·e·mark
ˈte-lə-ˌmärk 
often capitalized
: a turn in skiing in which the outside ski is advanced considerably ahead of the other ski and then turned inward at a steadily widening angle until the turn is completed
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Programming Beaver Creek's Ski & Snowboard School offers a full menu of lesson options: group, private, first-time, advanced, adaptive, cross-country, telemark, alpine touring, and more.
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Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2024
Les Contamines, a French resort overlooking Mont-Blanc, just canceled this weekend’s World Cup telemark ski race because of a lack of snow.
—Time, 4 Jan. 2023
My favorite participation stat comes from telemark skiing.
—Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 13 Aug. 2021
The lodge in the 1970s hosted a raucous telemark-skiing scene where patrons could pay $10 to sleep on the floor and get lessons.
—Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2020
The telemark skier Every few decades since at least the 1860s, a generation of downhill skiers revives the ancient art of tele-skiing.
—R. Scott Rappold, The Know, 19 Dec. 2019
Thus the AT set-up makes ski mountaineering possible for downhill skiers who never mastered the telemark turn.
—John Meyer, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2017
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Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2024
Les Contamines, a French resort overlooking Mont-Blanc, just canceled this weekend’s World Cup telemark ski race because of a lack of snow.
—Time, 4 Jan. 2023
My favorite participation stat comes from telemark skiing.
—Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 13 Aug. 2021
The lodge in the 1970s hosted a raucous telemark-skiing scene where patrons could pay $10 to sleep on the floor and get lessons.
—Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2020
The telemark skier Every few decades since at least the 1860s, a generation of downhill skiers revives the ancient art of tele-skiing.
—R. Scott Rappold, The Know, 19 Dec. 2019
Thus the AT set-up makes ski mountaineering possible for downhill skiers who never mastered the telemark turn.
—John Meyer, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2017
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“Telemark.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telemark. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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