ski
One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.
Noun
- One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.
- Disaster at the newly opened ski resort where hard-driving tycoon Hudson is determined to double his not insubstantial investment while his ex-wife Mia is making whoopee with one of the locals championing ecology. -...
- We skied back the way we had come for about thirty minutes when I saw her. Mary was hanging upside down by the tips of her skies from a tree well. - 2014, Inspiring Generations: 150 Years, 150 Stories in Yosemite,...
- Yilamujiang grew up in Altay, a prefecture bordering Mongolia in far northwest Xinjiang. Chinese officials consider the region the cradle of Alpine sport, after cave paintings of hunters on skis were dated at 10,000...
- One of a pair of long flat runners under some flying machines, used for landing.
- A trip made by skiing.
- to go for a ski
Origin
From Norwegian ski, from Old Norse skíð (“stick of wood, snowshoe”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split”) (see also shed). Cognate with Old English sċīd (“stick of wood”) (modern shide), Old High German skit (Modern German Scheit (“log”)).
Forms
Derived
biski cross-country ski downhill-ski dualski heliski heli-ski hydroski jet ski jet-ski miniski mono-ski monoski nonski outski over one's skis sit-ski sitski skiability skiathlon skiathon ski ballet ski bazaar skiboard ski boat
Verb
- To move on skis.
- Townsend hare inhabit this area, particularly above the cabin, and a skier is likely to have one explode from a tree well and disappear into the whiteness as he skis by. Life is a constant bivouac for them -- they spend...
- We skied back the way we had come for about thirty minutes when I saw her. Mary was hanging upside down by the tips of her skies from a tree well. - 2014, Inspiring Generations: 150 Years, 150 Stories in Yosemite,...
- To travel over (a slope, etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport).
- We spent the winter holidays skiing the Alps