There is no better surface for setting a well-tuned edge and letting a modern sidecut ski slice the snow in long clean arcs.

It was not the simple, clean arc of our Egyptian bows; on the Hyksos bow, the upper and lower limbs recurved at the tips.

"These skis make a clean carving arc in the snow," said Daron Rahlves, the top American downhiller and the reigning world champion in the super-G.

Although his shoulders and arms trembled from exhaustion, he crossed to the foot of the nearest fallen tree and brought the blade down through the air in a clean, hard arc.

Her life was a straight path with no byways, her career a clean arc.

The wide tips and tails allow even inexperienced skiers to carve back and forth on clean arcs, generating forces that make them susceptible to injury.

Mount's Delta accelerated away at a fifteenth of a gee, following a clean arc above the surface of the counter-rotating spaceport.

And Johnny Baker dived in a clean arc across to the communications panel.

He leaped, cutting a clean arc, sleek as a dolphin.

Within a minute, they were clear to leave and the Marco Polo executed a clean arc, angling itself in a direction that would bring them to the first of two rendezvous locations.