Spanish Winter Olympics Vocabulary

With this post you will learn about the Winter Olympics vocabulary in Spanish in particular, the sports held at this event.

In addition, there are plenty of examples with audios to help you better understand the concepts and to practice your listening skills.

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Most of the sports in the Winter Olympic Games don’t have an Spanish origin, hence the tendency to keep their names in English.

So, if for example you go to Spain, do not get surprised if they tell you: ¿Te vienes a hacer snowboard? However, Spanish speakers tend to pronounce them with their accent making them to sound a little more Spanish. On the other hand, other words are pronounced the same way, such as hockey.

Below are the Spanish translations for all the Winter Olympics sports (los deportes de los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno).

WINTER OLYMPICS SPORTS

Spanish	English
El biatlón (see table below)	Biathlon
El bobsleigh El bobsled	bobsled
La combinada nórdica	Nordic combined
El curling	Curling
El esquí acrobático El esquí de estilo libre El esquí artístico (see table below)	Freestyle skiing
El esquí alpino (see table below)	Alpine skiing
El esquí de fondo (see table below)	Cross country skiing
El hockey (sobre) hielo	Ice hockey
El luge El trineo ligero	Luge
El patinaje artístico	Figure skating
El patinaje de velocidad	Speed skating
Los saltos de esquí	Ski jumping
El shorttrack El patinaje de velocidad en pista corta	Short track speed skating
El skeleton El trineo simple El trineo sencillo	Skeleton
El snowboard (see table below)	Snowboard

BIATHLON

Spanish	English
El individual	Individual
La persecución	Pursuit
Los relevos	Relay
Los relevos mixtos Los relevos por equipos mixtos	Mixed Relay
Los relevos por parejas mixtas	Single mixed relay
La salida en masa La salida en grupo	Mass start
El sprint	Sprint

FREESTYLE SKIING

Spanish	English
Los aerials Los aéreos	Aerials
El halfpipe	Halfpipe
Los moguls El esquí de baches	Moguls
El skicross El esquí cross	Skicross
El slopestyle	Slopestyle

SNOWBOARD

Spanish	English
El eslalon gigante paralelo	Giant parallel slalom
El eslalon paralelo	Paralel slalom
El halfpipe	Halfpipe
El slopestyle	Slopestyle
El snowboard cross	Snowboard cross

ALPINE SKIING

Spanish	English
El descenso	Downhill
El eslalon	Slalom
El eslalon gigante	Giant Slalom
El eslalon paralelo	Parallel mixed team event
El eslalon súper gigante	Super giant slalom Super-G
La combinada alpina	Alpine combined
La super combinada	Super combined

CROSS COUNTRY SKIING

Spanish	English
El clásico	Classical
El estilo libre	Free style
El esquiatlón	Skiathlon
Los relevos	Relay
La salida en masa La salida en grupo	Mass start
El sprint individual	Individual sprint
El sprint por equipos	Team sprint

Final Thoughts

I hope this post helps you learn the Spanish Winter Olympics vocabulary.

I advise you to practice with the audios here and try to use the vocabulary in your conversations.

If you want, I can help you practice with this vocabulary by using it while having a conversation during our online Spanish conversation classes.

Additionally, we can practice in the comment section below by answering the following questions:

¿Qué deportes de invierno practicas?
¿Qué deportes viste en los últimos Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno?

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