Lake Placid

American  

noun

1. a town in northeaster New York, in the Adirondack Mountains: known as a resort town and sometimes host to the Winter Olympics.

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Example Sentences

The triumph in Lake Placid, New York, sends them into the Grand Prix Final in Nagoya, Japan, next month and more importantly maintains their status as the pair to watch for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in February.

From Barron's

Tomono, who is vying to land one of Japan's three men's Olympic team spots for the Milan-Cortina Winter Games in February, looked the part as the fifth stop on the grand prix circuit got underway in Lake Placid, New York.

From Barron's

Kristy Gammon used to travel to the US from Canada at least once every other year, taking ski trips at Lake Placid in New York and travelling to Baltimore, Maryland, for her husband's favourite Orioles baseball games.

From BBC

The setting was the medal round of the 1980 Games in Lake Placid.

From The Wall Street Journal

Fears loomed that if the city couldn’t nail down a transit plan, the experience would be a disaster and spectators would encounter a fate similar to the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y., where thousands of people were stranded in below-freezing temperatures after the shuttle bus system became overloaded, according to Times archival reports.

From Los Angeles Times