Definition of Downhill

Downhill

Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.

Declivous; descending; sloping.

Declivity; descent; slope.

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Downhill Quotations

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein

Golf is a better game played downhill.
Jack Nicklaus

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.
Harvey Pekar

You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
Bebe Neuwirth

Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.
Picabo Street

There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since.
Raymond E. Feist

It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.
Mickey Rourke

Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash.
Hermann Maier

For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.
Hermann Maier

It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting.
Hermann Maier

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
Theodore White

The God that can only love something like this man. And from then on it was all downhill.
Todd Rundgren

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.
Mickey Spillane

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
Jon Heder

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.
Enzo Ferrari

I like to hit it downhill, that's the way I was taught to run.
Jamal Lewis

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.
Allan Sherman

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
Fred Hoyle