How to Use salchow in a Sentence

salchow

noun
  • The edge jumps are the loop, the salchow and the axel, while the toe jumps are the toe loop, the flip and the lutz.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Edge jumps like the salchow require having a feel for the ice with the pressure of the blade to spring up.
    — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The kitchen’s salchows, lutzes and triple axels are matched by a classical sense of what tastes good with what.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Chen, who is from Salt Lake City, took off with an opening quad salchow.
    — Bernie Wilson, Chron, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Valieva first performed a quad salchow in her free skate, then landed another quad to loop.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The salchow is an edge jump, accomplished with a takeoff from the back inside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot.
    — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Kagiyama opened with a quad toe-triple toe combination, landed a quad salchow and finished his short program with a peerless triple axel.
    — CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • During her women's long program for the team event, Valieva landed a quadruple salchow.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Here’s your cheat sheet for telling six figure skating jumps apart during the Winter Olympics, from an axel to a toe loop, salchow and lutz jump.
    — Alice Park, Time, 8 Feb. 2018
  • One of the day’s first skaters is Constantine, a prodigious, floppy-haired 11-year-old who’s working on his triple salchow.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Valieva was shaky on an opening quad salchow, then stepped out on a triple axel and fell altogether on a quad toe loop-triple toe loop combination.
    — Dave Skretta, chicagotribune.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Naumov’s performance wasn’t flawless but had its moments, a strong opening quad salchow and a solid triple lutz, triple-toe combination.
    — Reid Laymance, Houston Chronicle, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But the Four Continents winner just last month popped his opening quad salchow, fell on a later jump and never really recovered.
    — Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Levito elegantly landed her triple lutz-half loop-triple salchow sequence and other most difficult jumps while captivating the crowd as the final skater of the evening.
    — Janie McCauley, ajc, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Duhamel and partner Eric Radford grabbed third place in pairs and made history by executing the first throw quad salchow in Olympic history.
    — Charles Curtis, For The Win, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Levito looked unfazed, elegantly landing her triple lutz-half loop-triple salchow sequence and other most difficult jumps while captivating the crowd as the final skater of the evening.
    — Janie McCauley, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
  • First after the short program, the Utah native opened with a quadruple flip and landed a quad salchow in the first half of his routine set to a selection of music by Philip Glass.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • During the 45-minute session, Valieva threw down four quad jumps, including one in a potentially high-scoring combination with a triple salchow.
    — Graham Dunbar and James Ellingworth, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • His short program Thursday night, which began with a quad salchow and ended with a triple-triple combination, was good enough to briefly give him the lead, and keep him in the mix heading into Saturday’s free skate.
    — Dave Skretta, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2026
  • His short program Thursday night, which began with a quad salchow and ended with a triple-triple combination, was good enough to briefly give him the lead, and keep him in the mix heading into Saturday’s free skate.
    — Dave Skretta, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Since then, Carrillo has notched six top-10 finishes in major international events and added the difficult quadruple salchow to his repertoire.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Among her milestones Monday at Capital Indoor Stadium was a quad salchow and a quad toe that included a triple-toe combination.
    — NBC News, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Alexandra Trusova, who won the junior Grand Prix final in December, can land a quadruple salchow, even if imperfectly, at age 13.
    — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The difference in gold may have come down to Sui and Han opening with a quad twist, a high-scoring element that made up for a sloppy triple salchow and kept them from losing their lead of 16 hundredths of a point after the short program.
    — Dave Skretta, ajc, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Female skaters who have landed the quad in international competition At the junior world championships, Trusova, now known as the Quad Queen, landed two quads — a toe loop and a salchow.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • At a competition in Russia this week, one of Tutberidze’s junior skaters, Alexandra Trusova, 13, boldly attempted two quads in her routine, landing a quad salchow and falling on a quad toe.
    — JerÉ Longman and Victor Mather, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
  • At a competition in Russia this week, one of Tutberidze's junior skaters, Alexandra Trusova, 13, boldly attempted two quads in her routine, landing a quad salchow and falling on a quad toe.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The son of Olympic skaters Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov ended with back-to-back combos, a quad toe-triple flip and a quad salchow-triple axel, leaving a crowd full of American and Japanese fans roaring in approval.
    — Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026

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