ski

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   move along on skis

   We love to ski the Rockies

2. 2
   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.

3. 3
   noun

   A trip made by skiing.

   to go for a ski

4. 4
   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 days huddled in tree wells during storms -- but I suspect they are as content and warm in their luxurious coats as we are in a cabin.

5. 5
   verb

   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

6. 6
   noun

   narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow

7. 7
   noun

   One of a pair of long flat runners under some flying machines, used for landing.

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). Cognate with Old English sċīd (“stick of wood”) (modern shide), Old High German skit (Modern German Scheit (“log”)).