### Downhill The term **downhill** primarily describes a direction or movement toward a lower elevation. It is widely used across sports, media, and geography to denote specific activities or entities. #### 1. Sports and Recreation * **Downhill Mountain Biking:** A genre of mountain biking practiced on steep, rough terrain that often features jumps, drops, rock gardens, and other obstacles. * **Downhill Skiing (Alpine Skiing):** A competitive discipline of skiing characterized by high speeds and technical turns on prepared snow slopes. * **Downhill Skateboarding:** A form of longboarding where riders compete for the fastest time on mountain roads or paved hills. * **Downhill (Bicycle Race):** A specific time-trial event in cycling where riders compete individually to navigate a descending course in the shortest period. #### 2. Film and Television * **Downhill (1927):** A British silent drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ivor Novello. * **Downhill (2016):** A Chilean-produced horror-thriller film directed by Patricio Valladares. * **Downhill (2020):** An American black comedy film directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell (a remake of the 2014 Swedish film *Force Majeure*). * **"Downhill":** An episode of the American television series *The Good Wife*. #### 3. Music * **Downhill (Album):** A 1994 release by the industrial band Die Krupps. * **"Downhill":** A song by the alternative rock band Rishloo from their album *Eidolon*. #### 4. Geography and Places * **Downhill, County Londonderry:** A village and townland in Northern Ireland, notable for the Downhill Estate and the Mussenden Temple. * **Downhill House:** An 18th-century mansion built for Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, located in County Londonderry. #### 5. Other Uses * **Downhill (Idiom):** Often used in the phrase "to go downhill," referring to a steady decline in quality, health, or status. * **Downhill Simplex Method:** A numerical method (also known as the Nelder–Mead method) used to find the minimum or maximum of an objective function in multidimensional space.