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Definition of slope : 1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
3. In a sloping manner.
4. Sloping.
5. The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.
6. To depart; to disappear suddenly.
7. To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
8. To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.

Synonyms:

ramp, monger, crag, hill, face, peddle, chairlift, set up, list, position, cant over, cap, sky, gradient, escarpment, divide, brae, binding, tend, be given, downhill, lean, crown, straight, careen, inner-tubing, deliver, toss, the brow, cairn, huckster, mogul, luge, lurch, shift, heel, hawk, Aspen, upgrade, rake, incline, cant, diagonal, crest, side of meat, gear, pitch, declivity, vend, flip, heel over, brink, heliskiing, dispose, cross-country skiing, side, tip, run, dip

deviation, angularity, indirection, deviousness, inclination, leaning, bent, bias, slant

drop, comedown, plunge, fall, grade, slide, decline, descent, slip

crookedness, tilt

Usage examples:

• They started down the slope and walked in silence. - "When Egypt Went Broke", Holman Day.
• The two men took from Iermola's cabin a large strong spade, and went together down the little slope which led to the bottom of the garden. - "Iermola", Joseph Ignatius Kraszewksi.
• They generally slope up stream pretty sharply. - "The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage", Charles G. D. Roberts.