I am working with sports analogy. I have 3 problems that I simply cannot fiqure out...Help>

Question

1. Swimming is to butterfly as _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is to dressage.
2. In skiing, alpine is to slalom as ______is to cross-country.
3. A mountain is to a ski jumper as a ________is to a diver...

Answer 1

Sports questions here.

Answer 2

1. As you can see from this definition, "dressage" has to do with horseback riding.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dressage

2. Check this definition of "slalom."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/slalom

What do people do when the participate in cross-country?

3. A ski jumper jumps off a mountain. What does a diver jump from?

We'll be glad to check your answers.

Answer 3

Butterfly is a discipline of swimming, whereas dressage is a discipline of horseriding (I just googled "define dressage" to find that out).

A ski-jumper skis down a mountain, so it ought to be that a diver dives down a ... what? Is it a swimming pool, because he dives down into it? It's not really an exact parallel though: does anybody have any better ideas? As to no. 2, what's cross-country skiing called? Is there such a thing?

Answer 4

Cross country is just that...a long race over difficult conditions... that is also what alpine skiing is. What kind of race would the slalom be equal to?

Answer 5

I think my answers would be:

1. discipline
2. zigzag
3. platform

Answer 6

I think that Horseback riding would be the answer to #1.