rink

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a prepared surface or building used for ice skating or roller skating

   The children circled the roller-skating rink until closing time.

2. 2
   noun

   the prepared ice on which curling or ice hockey is played

   The teams stepped onto the rink for the opening face-off.

Borrowed from Scots rink or renk, 'course or battlefield,' through Old French reng from a Germanic word related to ring and rank. The sporting-surface sense developed in Scotland.

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