ski

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to move over snow on skis

   We love to ski in the mountains every winter.

2. 2
   noun

   one of a pair of long narrow runners fixed to boots for gliding over snow

   He clipped his boots into his skis at the top of the slope.

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”)).

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