ski
//skiː//
Forms
- Plural
- skis
- present (v1)
- ski
- past (v2)
- skied
- past participle (v3)
- skied
- present participle
- skiing
- 3rd person singular
- skis
Definitions
1.One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.
- 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.
- 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.
2.One of a pair of long flat runners under some flying machines, used for landing.
3.A trip made by skiing.
1.To move on skis.
- 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.
2.To travel over (a slope, etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport).
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3970
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
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).