Sentence examples for pistes for from inspiring English sources

Each has its own nursery slope and lots of wide and gentle pistes for confidence building.

Some of them are very small: the skiing at Hoch Imst, above the Inn Valley, about 50 kilometres west of Innsbruck, amounts to no more than nine kilometres of pistes, for example.

This is how skiers enjoyed the mountains before the advent of lifts, and the sport is enjoying a bit of a resurgence among those who want to exchange the hubbub of lift queues and busy pistes for the untracked wilds of the back country and the gentle soughing of the wind across open snowfields.

While both resorts are large in their own rights, with lots of groomed pistes for intermediate and advanced skiers and plenty of off-piste skiing, linking them puts them in the league of France's other great ski areas - the Trois Vallées and Espace Killy.

So here I am swapping pistes for palm trees at the Horasis Global Meeting in the rather warmer climes of Cascais, 30 minutes from Lisbon on Portugal's Atlantic coast.

British Fencing has still not found a permanent training venue with full-size Olympic pistes for the squad and there is talk of building a national centre after the Games, possibly by taking over a venue within the Olympic Park.

The last thing he needed was for his campaign to go off piste for a week.

AS I am off on holiday from tomorrow, I want to head slightly off piste for this last post.

If you're riding the National Cycle Network Route 68 and fancy heading off-piste for a while – and if you like it rugged, twisting and wild – look no further.

That it's packed with school kids, perhaps, or has crappy snow or no steep off-piste for you to exhibit your amazing prowess.

The Kitzbüheler Alpen AllStarCard covers 10 Austrian ski areas including Kitzbühel, St Johann in Tirol and the newly formed Ski Jewel area of Alpbachtal and Wildschönau – more than 1,000km of piste – for £188 for six days.