stem turn

1. 1.

   a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it

   Synonymsstem

   Broaderturn

Questions about stem turn

What does stem turn mean?

stem turn means "a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it".

What is another word for stem turn?

Close synonyms include stem. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stem turn a common word?

stem turn is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.