surface lift

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   a ski tow that pulls skiers up a slope without lifting them off the ground

   Broaderski tow

   NarrowerT-bar lift

Questions about surface lift

What does surface lift mean?

surface lift means "a ski tow that pulls skiers up a slope without lifting them off the ground".

Is surface lift a common word?

surface lift is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.