From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishchairliftchair‧lift, chair lift /ˈtʃeəlɪft $ ˈtʃer-/ noun [countable] TTBa line of chairs hanging from a moving wire, used for carrying people up and down mountains, especially to ski
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chairlift• Trail System: 40 trails, evenly mixed for ability level; 2 chairlifts, 3-bars.• Since getting off a chairlift without skis is tricky, the gondola is the best way up.• Four Dopplemayr chairlifts take you up from the hotel at 2,000m to the summit at 3,000m.• I know people who find chairlifts terrifying.• A long chairlift took us back up to the Col de la Madeleine, with its spectacular view up to Meribel.• A total of 14 people died on the piste including four casualties of the chairlift accident in Carinthia and four heart attacks.• Everywhere else was white: snow-covered trees, snow-covered mountains and my snow-covered skis dangling off the chairlift. 