Lake Placid

noun

1. a town in northeaster New York, in the Adirondack Mountains: known as a resort town and sometimes host to the Winter Olympics.

Example Sentences

The Daily Wire reported on Friday that Fema staff had been checking on homes in Lake Placid when they were ordered to skip properties that had yard signs supporting the Republican candidate.

From BBC

Communities in western and northern reaches of the state are expected to have the best viewing of the total eclipse, including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Lake Placid and Plattsburgh.

From Seattle Times

He eventually returned to Utica as photography director and also freelanced during the 1970s for a number of print outlets including AP, covering the NFL and general news as well as the Lake Placid and Moscow 1980 Olympics.

From Seattle Times

In Minnesota he’d admired the “hard play, puck possession and skill” preachings of legendary local college coach Herb Brooks, whose “Miracle on Ice” Team USA won gold at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.

From Seattle Times

There are only about a dozen active ski jump hills remaining in the Northeast, ranging from small high school jumps to the state-of-the-art towers in Lake Placid, New York.

From Seattle Times