downhill's Usage Examples:

The colon then goes downhill via a bend called the splenic flexure.

He shifted his bike into high gear as he began a long downhill, build­ing speed, anxious to get home.

He'd been moving steadily downhill since before he traveled west to his mother's final days and had not improved since her passing.

In a heated moment the phrase "jack-booted thug" slips out, and it is all downhill from there.

The longest downhill run at Attitash is four kilometers, but there is also cross-country and tree skiing available for more advanced skiers.

Twenty-four hours after his hour-long downhill hike from the mine, Dean's stilts felt like he'd run a barefoot marathon on cobblestoned streets.

Unlike downhill or alpine skiing, it does not involve the use of chairlifts.

The downhill simplex method is not as efficient as Powell 's method, and usually requires more function evaluations.

freewheel downhill all the way into Gamlingay.

The period from now until the end of the war in 1453 demonstrated an apparently ineluctable downhill slide.

Ryland?During the two weeks there was a Mexican dinner at the Catholic church, a couple of movies, three evenings at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool and even a day of downhill skiing at Telluride.

Flying downhill produced an exhilaration that defied explanation.

He touched his horse, gave the word of command, and immediately, hearing behind him the tramp of the horses of his deployed squadron, rode at full trot downhill toward the dragoons.

Synonyms:

fall, decline, descent, declension, declination, downslope, declivity,

Antonyms:

contract in, accept, obey, increment, ascent,