Luge

Luge

Luge is a one or two person sport in which the participants ride a small sled feet first and face up down an ice slope or street. Because of the high speeds attained luge is timed to the thousandth of a second, it is an Olympic sport.

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horn

Sports; Luge

This is the curved part at the front of the cufin.

kreisel

Sports; Luge

The German word for circle (also a children's toy) and this is a curve that goes in a circle by having the track cross over itself.

labyrinth

Sports; Luge

A series of small curves usually 3 or 4, on a luge track with very little or no straightaway in-between them. Almost all tracks have labyrinths.

line

Sports; Luge

The path a sled takes when going down the track.

loop

Sports; Luge

This refers to a line going through a curve that dips down in the middle of the curve and then rises again near the exit. Competitors try to avoid taking this line through a curve because it is not ...