long slide

Curling

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a style of play in which the curler takes a long slide along the ice when delivering his stone from the hack.

Quotations

1962

The west . . . introduced the long slide now about twice the distance the old-style curler slides before launching his stone.

1962

The long slide and knockout game are becoming more and more common in the east.