What's the difference between piste and trail?

Piste


Definition:

  • (n.) The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I finally found my trusty rubber friend amongst kirby grips and tissues, and clumsily put it on, adding buoyantly: “I’m really looking forward to this!” Everything was then going tickety-boo until my rubber friend went off-piste and wedged itself stubbornly somewhere between my cervix and uterus.
  • (2) "Lean forward," shouts Barnie, as I tentatively point my skis, in a slight snowplough, down the Ariondaz piste.
  • (3) Several villages, each linked to the piste, makes up Serre Chevalier.
  • (4) Here are some examples: in Chamonix , Chamois Blanc 7 is a cute little apartment, with modern decor and lots of pine panelling, sleeping four from €600 in February and March, or €500 in April; while in the Tarentaise, 20 minutes from lovely Sainte-Foy , which has nice runs, great hiking into the backcountry and is within a short drive of La Rosière and Les Arcs, La Tillette is a super-stylish modern chalet sleeping eight, with massive windows and white interiors, L'Occitane toiletries and off-piste skiing to the door.
  • (5) yseski.co.uk Families Obergurgl, Austria, 1,950-3,080m, 24 lifts, 110km of piste, glacier Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obergurgl, Austria.
  • (6) Most accidents (84%) happened on the pistes and ski lifts were involved in about 6% of them.
  • (7) The setting sun casts shadows over parts of the piste, and it's so quiet that, like on a country walk, when I see another person, we say hello.
  • (8) The scale, variety and superior grooming of Courchevel's pistes, along with its lift systems and snowmaking, means learners and intermediates have some of the best snow in the Alps.
  • (9) Ride a Snooc, Le Grand Bornand, France Hiking off into the wilderness and finding peace away from the pistes is one of the most rewarding things to do in the mountains.
  • (10) We start out in Courchevel Moriond (previously 1650) on the blue runs around Ariondaz, where the wide pistes are in tip-top condition, thanks to a bumper dump of snow a few days earlier.
  • (11) Chalet La Falaise in Les Carroz , which has 144 pistes in Le Grand Massif , sleeps 10 in four bedrooms, and costs £1,600 for the whole self-catering property for the weeks starting 2 and 9 March.
  • (12) After a couple of days tearing around this undulating terrain, stopping for coffee and Kuchen in cosy places such as Berghotel Körbersee, where I had to step over a snoozing St Bernard to access the toilet, I ventured further into the backcountry with the Warth ski school , whose range of guided off-piste excursions is more original than any I have seen.
  • (13) There are loads of wide and gentle slopes, perfect for beginners and improvers, with 43% of the pistes graded blue (easy).
  • (14) Since the former mayor Eugen Larcher managed to convince authorities to open up the nearby glacier to skiers and hikers in the 1960s, the valley has become an upmarket slow-travel destination: close to nearby skiing pistes but not overrun by tourists, with high-speed broadband and a newly built spa.
  • (15) Luckily, there’s plenty of that nearby, which was the other reason I was here: to combine mountains and movies, popcorn and pistes.
  • (16) That will be like giving a medal to a ski instructor for leading his group off-piste down a closed black run and pulling them out alive from the ensuing avalanche.
  • (17) But BuzzFeed – like the Huffington Post, where Peretti started his digital career – doesn't compete across the piste.
  • (18) Highlights were when Spencer went a bit off piste from the classic look: an apple green parka, sweater with square motif and boxy suede jacket were welcome bits of modernity.
  • (19) Walking routes marked are in purple on the piste map, along with the red, blue and black runs.
  • (20) Once your children are up and skiing, there are themed areas on the mountain that add a touch of magic and story telling, such as the Piste of the Wicked Fairy Godmother in Courchevel Moriond, and the Indians Piste, where children go in search of the Grey Wolf and the Chief of the Indian tribe.

Trail


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To hunt by the track; to track.
  • (v. t.) To draw or drag, as along the ground.
  • (v. t.) To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
  • (v. t.) To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat.
  • (v. t.) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
  • (v. i.) To be drawn out in length; to follow after.
  • (v. i.) To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.
  • (n.) A track left by man or beast; a track followed by the hunter; a scent on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail.
  • (n.) A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region; as, an Indian trail over the plains.
  • (n.) Anything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke.
  • (n.) Anything drawn behind in long undulations; a train.
  • (n.) Anything drawn along, as a vehicle.
  • (n.) A frame for trailing plants; a trellis.
  • (n.) The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep.
  • (n.) That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.
  • (n.) The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
  • (2) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
  • (3) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
  • (4) Zuma, who had endured booing during Mandela's memorial service at this stadium, received a rapturous welcome as he entered to the sound of a military drumroll trailed by young, flag-waving majorettes.
  • (5) The woman Hollande describes as the "love of his life" has been present on the campaign trail over the past few weeks, but always behind him, or on the sidelines.
  • (6) Some journalists are uneasy at this notion of keeping an audit trail of thinking, authority and pre-publication decision-making?
  • (7) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
  • (8) This is the latest rejection for an irrational bully whose brand is increasingly toxic.” Referring to earlier controversial comments made on the US campaign trail, Salmond also said of Trump: His behaviour and comments are unlikely to attract the votes of many Mexican Americans or Muslim Americans.
  • (9) Calls to defund the organisation have proliferated among Republicans in Congress and on the 2016 presidential campaign trail .
  • (10) But while he may remain fairly invisible on the campaign trail for a while longer, his presence is already being felt behind closed doors.
  • (11) The Tories are in first place, on 34%, while Labour trails in third on 28%.
  • (12) The trailing edge of the flagellum, which is thickly covered by scales and was assumed until now to lack receptors, contains both mechanosensitive and contact chemoreceptors.
  • (13) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
  • (14) As was the case against Chelsea's two buses a fortnight ago, Liverpool struggled to find solutions against the visitors' 5-4-1 formation, trailed to Martin Skrtel's fourth own goal in one season, a Premier League record, and could have been further behind when Yoan Gouffran raced through only to be denied by Simon Mignolet.
  • (15) Debenhams said it also trailed behind its rivals in terms of convenience because it lacked a competitive range of premium delivery options.
  • (16) In a speech focused on national security, Liam Fox , who is trailing his fellow Tory leadership candidates in terms of support from MPs, hinted that he had doubts that a candidate without significant experience could handle the job.
  • (17) He stares down Cain, and works the count full after laying off some tricky pitches outside the zone that were trailing away from the righty.
  • (18) Simon Ingram, editor of hillwalking magazine Trail ( livefortheoutdoors.com)
  • (19) Do one-day or shorter sections of the route between Les Houches and Argentière, or tackle the Tour du Mont Blanc, a strenuous 250km trail that takes in the most naturally dramatic slices of Switzerland, France and Italy.
  • (20) Its main rival, Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Eurosceptic nationalist-conservative Law and Justice party (PiS), trailed on 30%.

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