Skiing is a single-player only game, in which the player uses the joystick to control the direction and speed of a stationary skier at the top of the screen, while the background graphics scroll upwards, thus giving the illusion the skier is moving.

In the slalom mode, the player must similarly reach the end of the course as rapidly as possible, but must at the same time pass through a series of gates (indicated by a pair of closely spaced flagpoles).

[4] Skiing was promoted via a 30-second TV commercial featuring a man demonstrating how to play the game (including the various obstacles into which a player can crash), while speaking in a stereotypical French accent.

The commercial ends with a close-up of the game box, with the man's voice heard off-screen (now speaking in a general American accent) saying, "I think I hurt myself", in reference to his numerous virtual crashes.

[citation needed] Richard A. Edwards reviewed Skiing in The Space Gamer No.