Wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara ya samo asali kuma ya bunƙasa a ƙasashen Scandinavia. Slalom (SLALOM) kuma kalma ce ta ƙasar Norway da ke nufin yin iyo a kan hanya mai gangara. An kafa Ƙungiyar Wasannin Ski ta Duniya a shekarar 1924. An haɗa wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara ta Nordic a gasar Olympics ta hunturu ta farko da aka gudanar a Chamonix, Faransa a shekarar 1924. Manyan ƙasashe a duniya a wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara su ne ƙasashen Scandinavia, kamar Norway, Sweden, Finland, da ƙasashen da ke kewaye da Alps a Yammacin Turai: Faransa, Italiya, Austria, Jamus da Sweden, da kuma Amurka, Rasha, da sauransu, gabaɗaya, ƙasashen Scandinavia suna da fa'ida a wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara ta Nordic, kuma ƙasashen Alpine suna da fa'ida a wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara ta Alpine.

Tare da ci gaban wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara (musamman wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara na zamani), adadin abubuwa yana ƙaruwa kuma filin yana faɗaɗa. Manyan abubuwan da ake gudanarwa a gasar duniya an raba su zuwa: wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara, wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara na Nordic (Ski na Nordic, wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara, tsalle kan dusar ƙanƙara), wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara na freestyle, wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara na biathlon, wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara, da sauransu. Kowace babban taron an raba ta zuwa ƙananan tarurruka da yawa. Goma sha biyu na lambobin zinare masu ban sha'awa a gasannin ƙasa da Olympics na lokacin hunturu suna ƙarfafa mutane su yi aiki tuƙuru da rabawa. Wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara na gasa yana da gasa sosai kuma na musamman, kuma yanayin da ya dace yana da tsauri, wanda ya fi abin da talakawa za su iya samu da kuma daidaitawa da shi. Wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara don manufar nishaɗi da motsa jiki ne, kuma ɗan adam yana da ɗan iyakancewa kaɗan. Maza, mata da yara za su iya zamewa cikin sauƙi da farin ciki a filin dusar ƙanƙara kuma su ji daɗin nishaɗin tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara. Saboda wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara yana da halaye na shiga cikin yanayi mai ban sha'awa, kyakkyawa, kyauta, mai ƙarfi, mai jan hankali da faffadan yanayi, ana ɗaukar wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara a matsayin ainihin da alamar wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara, kuma shine zaɓi na farko da babban taron yawon buɗe ido. Yawanci, ana amfani da wasan tsere kan dusar ƙanƙara don kimanta ƙwarewar mutane.