skiing
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’.
'skiing' also found in these Oxford entries:
aerial
- alpine
- angulate
- après-ski
- biathlon
- black
- black diamond
- blue
- board
- carve
- cross-country
- downhill
- dry slope
- fall line
- freestyle
- giant slalom
- grass ski
- green
- heli-skiing
- herringbone
- hot dog
- jet ski
- kick-turn
- langlauf
- lift
- mogul
- monoski
- Nordic
- nursery slope
- off-piste
- piste
- pisteur
- powder
- red
- salopettes
- schuss
- shredder
- ski
- ski-bob
- skidoo
- skier
- skijoring
- ski jump
- ski lift
- skimobile
- slalom
- slope
- snowboard
- snowplough
- stack
