TTBa line of chairshanging from a moving wire, used for carrying people up and down mountains, especially to ski 〔载运乘客上下山的〕缆车吊椅
Examples from the Corpus
chairlift• Trail System: 40 trails, evenly mixed for abilitylevel; 2 chairlifts, 3-bars.• Since getting off a chairlift without skis is tricky, the gondola is the best way up.• Four Dopplemayr chairlifts take you up from the hotel at 2,000m to the summit at 3,000m.• I know people who find chairliftsterrifying.• A long chairlift took us back up to the Col de la Madeleine, with its spectacularview up to Meribel.• A total of 14 people died on the piste including four casualties of the chairliftaccident in Carinthia and four heartattacks.• Everywhere else was white: snow-covered trees, snow-covered mountains and my snow-covered skis dangling off the chairlift.