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# downhill

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

«downhill» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Downhill means going down a slope towards the bottom of a hill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#m1)
2. A downhill path or road slopes down. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#m4)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x1)
- Brake gently when you're riding downhill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x2)
- Water always flows downhill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x3)
- The ball rolled downhill into the pond. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x4)
- The walk back was easy because it was downhill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x5)
- Things went downhill after we lost the first match. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x6)
- It's all downhill from here. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/#x7)
- She won the downhill ski race. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «downhill» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downhill/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«downhill» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/downhill.html) on Mova free.