half-pipe

Or half pipe

[haf-pahyp, hahf-]

noun

1. a half-moon-shaped chute or ramp used by snowboarders and skateboarders to provide a takeoff for a jump.

half-pipe

noun

1. a structure with a U-shaped cross-section, used in performing stunts in skateboarding, snowboarding, rollerblading, etc

Example Sentences

The skatepark - which at the time was considered state of the art - opened in May 1978 and featured bowls, a slalom run and a half-pipe, all with names like Jaws, Torpedo and Bazooka.

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Sublime’s drummer Bud Gaugh says his most memorable moment at the first Warped Tour in 1995 was when he broke his ribs riding a BMX bike on a half-pipe during their stop in Houston, an incident, he says, later led to his arrest in Florida.

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“The experiment seems to agree well,” said Frank Feng, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Missouri who was not involved with the paper, but studied similar motions in half-pipe snowboarding.

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When a skateboarder hits the circular section of the half-pipe, they start crouched down, positioning their center of mass further from the center of rotation above their head.

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They told the skaters to catch as much air as possible on a half-pipe erected in a research lab.

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