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Hacer cuña

English translation: Smowploughing


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Spanish term or phrase:Hacer cuña
English translation:Smowploughing
Entered by: Beatriz Candil Garcia
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12:40 Jan 5, 2012
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Sports / Fitness / Recreation
Spanish term or phrase: Hacer cuña
Pls see below, thanks

1.
Meter una canasta – Baloncesto.
Dar una brazada – natación.
Regatear – fútbol.
Hacer cuña – esquí.
Bolea – tenis.
Beatriz Candil Garcia
Local time: 07:43
Smowploughing
Explanation:
The V-shaped ski position, it's called the snowplough

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Note added at 7 mins (2012-01-05 12:47:51 GMT)
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Please excuse the typo, it should be 'snowploughing'
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Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:43
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Summary of answers provided
4 +7Smowploughing
Simon Bruni
4 +1To make a gliding wedge
eski


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
Smowploughing


Explanation:
The V-shaped ski position, it's called the snowplough

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Note added at 7 mins (2012-01-05 12:47:51 GMT)
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Please excuse the typo, it should be 'snowploughing'


    Reference: http://www.scottishsport.co.uk/skiing/skibasics.htm
Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:43
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Emma Goldsmith: Indeed. Snow with an n, of course ;) /// Smow will be up in the cloud for years to come... (unless it worries you enough to submit a support ticket)
0 min
  -> Thanks Emma. I wish I could change it! The spelling police might get me. // Good idea thanks.

agree  Thayenga: Snow.... :)
8 mins
  -> Thanks Thayenga

agree  Lisa McCarthy
15 mins
  -> Thanks Lisa

agree  Charles Davis: I have no intention of pointing out the spelling mistake. When this happens to me I feel like saying "all right, already!". You could say "doing a snowplough turn" (or of course "snowplow" in American English).
16 mins
  -> Thanks Charles, I have submitted a support ticket to save face. And thanks for the US variant, I hadn't thought of that.

agree  Benjamin A Flores: Mis mejores ideas me las robaron los antiguos (esto es con Charles)
22 mins
  -> Thanks Benjamin

agree  Dr Neil Ashby: @ CHarles, give Simon credit, it's not a spelling mistake but a typo ;@) It's a significant difference...
2 hrs
  -> Thanks Neil

agree  rich.
3 hrs
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
To make a gliding wedge


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Saludos
eski :))


eski
Mexico
Local time: 00:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tom Thumb
1 hr
  -> Hi Tom: Thanks for your confirmation. eski :))
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