Piste Piste A piste () is a marked ski run or path down a mountain for snow skiing, snowboarding, or other mountain sports. This European term is French ("trail", "track") and synonymous with 'trail', 'slope', or 'groomed run' in North America. The word is pronounced using a long "e" sound (e.g. rhymes with "beast"). Increasingly, North Americans employ its common European antonym, 'off piste', to describe backcountry skiing, especially when referring to skiing outside officially approved areas of a ski resort. Pistes are usually maintained using tracked vehicles known as snowcats to compact or "groom" the snow to even out trail
Loanword "café", which literally means "coffee"), bazaar (from Persian "bāzār", which means "market"), and kindergarten (from German "Kindergarten", which literally means "children's garden"). In a bit of heterological irony, the word "calque" is a loanword from the French noun, derived from the verb "calquer" (to trace, to copy); the word "loanword" is a calque of the German word "Lehnwort"; and the phrase "loan translation" is a calque of the German "Lehnübersetzung". Loans of multi-word phrases, such as the English use of the French term "déjà vu", are known as adoptions, adaptations, or lexical borrowings. Strictly speaking, the term "loanword" conflicts with