go downhill
downhill
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈdaʊn.hɪl/ us /ˌdaʊnˈhɪl/
a skiing race that goes down a hill:
It was only the second time that US male and female skiers had won downhills on the same day.
The area is famous for its terrifying downhill course.
a downward slope on a hill:
I knew that if I wanted to win, I had to get faster on the downhills.
I had to ride the brakes on longer downhills to keep from building up excess speed.
By winning the downhill he became only the fifth skier ever to win World Cup races in all five disciplines.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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airboarder
airboarding
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après-ski
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figure skating
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skating rink
skiboarding
skier
skiing
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sledge
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downhill | American Dictionary

downhill
adjective, adverb
us/ˈdɑʊnˈhɪl/
toward or going toward the bottom of something or to a lower place:
a steep downhill path
She let the bike coast downhill.
If something goes downhill, it becomes worse or worth less money:
The automobile industry started to go downhill.

downhill | Business English

downhill
adverb
uk /ˌdaʊnˈhɪl/us
toward a lower or worse position or condition:
The company went downhill after being taken over by a second-rate firm which ran it into the ground.
42% of people polled thought the economy was headed downhill.

Examples of downhill

downhill
Whether the passengers were headed up or downhill, they were visible.
Thus, it wasn't only the" economy" that was going downhill.
Unfortunately, from that point onward the country went downhill.
Natural proteins do not generally exhibit downhill folding.
At a given temperature, low-energy states have a barrier for escape, while states of higher energy have downhill free-energy profiles.
The increase in variability, as a percentage, is considerably larger for the uphill farmers than the decrease experienced by the downhill farmers.
In such situations, downhill farmers, with a higher marginal productivity of water, are able to purchase it from the upper farmers.
When one cable reached full extension, a second was attached, and the first carried downhill for further use.
Without bottlenecks, non-exponential kinetics will generally be expected for this downhill case.
Kinetics are probedependent during downhill folding of an engineered lambda protein.
There are no strict local maxima, however, that is, climbing downhill is never required to access a higher peak.
First, one may consider a layer flowing downhill with only a low ventilating velocity.
In general, one would expect transmission losses between the uphill and downhill regions.
However, it also prevents the downhill farmers from facing a reduction of profit with a water market, relative to the situation without one.
The strong result of the numerical example was that the greatest gains from a water market occur when water is scarce in the downhill region.
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