- published: 12 Feb 2016
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A ski suit is a suit made to be worn over the rest of the clothes when skiing. A ski suit made for more casual winter wear outdoors may also be called a snowsuit.
A ski suit can either be one-piece, in the form of a jumpsuit, or two-piece, in the form of a ski jacket and matching trousers, called salopettes (or ski pants).
A ski suit is made from wind- and water-resistant or water-proof fabric, and has a non-removable liner made of nylon, silk, cotton or taffeta. Its main function is to keep a person warm while participating in winter sports, especially Nordic (cross-country) or Alpine (down-hill) skiing. It is generally a unisex garment.
A ski suit is usually made to keep the body warm (sometimes partly due to a suitable silvery colour that as a result increases its thermal conductivity[citation needed]), but the user often wears warm underwear too. It can also be used for alpine racing to improve aerodynamics. Ski suits made for speed skiing and alpine skiing might be very thin and skintight, adding as little air resistance as possible to the body.
A ski is narrow strip of wood, plastic, metal or combination thereof worn underfoot to glide over snow. Substantially longer than wide and characteristically employed in pairs, skis are attached to boots with bindings, either with a free, lockable, or permanently secured heel.
Originally intended as an aid to travel over snow they are now mainly used recreationally in the sport of skiing.
Skis are also fitted to vehicles dedidcated to traveling over snow such as snowmobiles and snowcats.
The Nordic ski technology was adapted during the early twentieth century to enable skiers to turn at higher speeds. New ski and binding designs, coupled with the introduction of ski lifts and snowcats to carry skiers up mountains, enabled the development of alpine skis. Meanwhile advances in technology in the Nordic camp allowed for the development of special skis for skating and ski jumping.
Ski nomenclature is relatively simple. Examining the ski from front to back along the direction of travel, the front of the ski (typically pointed or rounded) is the "tip", the middle is the "waist" and the rear (typically flat) is the "tail".
Suit or suits may refer to:
Come, come smoochy on my eyes
You dirten my surprise, so cold
Weak, my moans again once more
Our room is filled with bore, again
So your eyes gave me the blues
Back then, the river filled with sand
My body's flesh and gore, make me insecure
My body's flesh and gore, make me insecure
(Don't you leave me) My body's flesh and gore
My body's flesh and gore, make me insecure
My body's flesh and gore, make me insecure
My body's flesh and...
Yearn to lay there by your side
Bare skin, white in the wild, did you
Make the branch under my feet
Make noise while I'm asleep, could you
Leave, apart again once more
And I had waved you down before
My body's flesh and gore, left me insecure
My body's flesh and gore, left me insecure
My body's flesh and gore, left me insecure
My body's flesh and gore, left me insecure
My body's flesh and gore, left me insecure
(ice cold...)
My body's flesh and gore, left me insecure
My body's flesh and gore, left me insecure
(shadow's ...) My body's flesh and gore
My body's flesh and gore, left me insecure
My body's flesh and gore, left me insecure
(sunshine's in your eyes)
My body's flesh and gore, left me insecure