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# downhill

«downhill» in Mova's school dictionary: **going down a slope towards the bottom of a hill** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (downhill); adjective (downhill: a downhill path); noun (downhill, a skiing race)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Downhill means going down a slope towards the bottom of a hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#m1)

2) A downhill path or road slopes down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#m2)

3) Going downhill can mean getting worse, like a game going downhill after a mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#m3)

4) It's all downhill from here can mean the hard part is over and it will be easy now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In safety lessons: going downhill on a bike or scooter makes you go faster, so use your brakes gently and early; never ride downhill into a road. In science, things roll downhill because of gravity; water flows downhill. In sport, downhill skiing is a fast race down a mountain. Phrases: «go downhill», «run downhill», «downhill all the way», «downhill skiing».

### examples

- We raced downhill on our bikes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x1)
- Brake gently when you're riding downhill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x2)
- Water always flows downhill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x3)
- The ball rolled downhill into the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x4)
- The walk back was easy because it was downhill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x5)
- Things went downhill after we lost the first match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x6)
- It's all downhill from here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x7)
- She won the downhill ski race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x8)
- But as he did so it began to roll very gently downhill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x9)

### note

One word. Opposite: «uphill». Note: «go downhill» about a situation means getting worse, but «it's all downhill from here» can mean either getting easier or getting worse; the context tells you which.

### In the corpora

- [A story passed from person to person is like a snowball rolling downhill: it picks up bits on the way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/0/)
- [Think of pouring a bucket of water on a sandpit: little channels join into bigger ones and run downhill to one place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/4/)
- [The deadliest danger is a pyroclastic flow, an avalanche of hot gas, ash and rock racing downhill at over 100 km/h.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/12/)
- [A glacier is a huge mass of ice that slowly flows downhill under its own weight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/8/)
- [Aqueducts carried fresh water from hills to cities, sometimes over high stone bridges, using a gentle downhill slope.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «downhill» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.