ski
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ski/skiː/
▶noun (pl. skis) each of a pair of long, narrow pieces of hard, flexible material fastened under the feet for travelling over snow.
■ a similar device attached beneath a vehicle or aircraft.
▶verb (skis, skiing, skied) travel over snow on skis.– derivatives
skiable adjective,
skiing noun.
skiable adjective,
skiing noun.
– origin C18: from Norw., from ON skíth ‘billet, snowshoe’.
'ski' also found in these Oxford entries:
après-ski
- black
- black diamond
- blue
- bum
- dry slope
- gondola
- grass ski
- green
- heli-skiing
- jet ski
- kick-turn
- mogul
- monoski
- Nordic
- off-piste
- red
- run
- ski-bob
- skid
- skidoo
- skijoring
- ski jump
- ski lift
- ski mask
- ski pants
- ski plane
- slalom
- snowblade
- snowboard
- stem
- stem turn
- T-bar
- telemark
- traverse
- unweight
