chairlift
chairlift
Definition
☆ chair·lift (-lift′)
noun
a conveyor consisting of a number of seats suspended from a power-driven endless cable, used esp. to carry skiers up a mountain slope
chairlift
Usage Examples
Converse of subject
- serve: Ski runs at Jisan resort are served by four chairlifts.
- service: Hakuba 47 offers a wide spread of difficulties over eight runs serviced by six chairlifts.
Converse of object
- take: The edge of wild west reunion took a chairlift.
- use: The last steep descent was avoided by using a chairlift.
- have: Togari has 16 chairlifts in total, with an uplift capacity of thousands of people per hour.
- install: Another nearby resort, Oberjoch, has installed a six-seater chairlift.
- replace: All the conservation bodies involved have made it clear from the start that there is no quarrel with replacing the chairlift.
Adjective modifier
- new: Future Rumors: Details of a new planned chairlift in La Tania along with a new beginners piste have reached us.
- long: Here there is a long chairlift with a nursery run at the top.
- 6-seater: Access to the ski area of Les Arcs is via a high-speed 6-seater chairlift out of Plan Peisey.
- high-speed: Access to the ski area of Les Arcs is via a high-speed 6-seater chairlift out of Plan Peisey.
- slow: The lift systems are good with very few queues, and no slow chairlifts!
- near: It is a 5 minute walk to the village center and the nearest chairlift is 380m away.
Modifies a noun
- station: It was a cold wait for the bus at the chairlift base station.
- ride: From the Hotel Victoria in Kandersteg, this most beautiful of Swiss lakes is just a short chairlift ride away.
- service: A total of 12 chairlifts service the trails, with a lift capacity of almost 18,000 people per hour.
Noun used with modifier
- seater: Meribel Valley The Plan de l'homme chair from the Chaudanne in Meribel is being replaced by a high speed detachable 6 seater chairlift.
- person: Ski school usually starts at the top of the Sportinia 4 person chairlift.
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