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rinking

rinking is the present participle and gerund of rink.

Meaning of rink

Verb

rink (third-person singular simple present rinks, present participle rinking, simple past and past participle rinked)

  1. (colloquial, dated, intransitive) To skate on an ice rink.
    • Jack, who has a knack of knowing, seeing, and doing everything from its very beginning, had of course "rinked" on the only compo at that time laid down in London for the purpose, and visited by London's upper twenty.1877, Temple Bar, volume 49, page 479

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Noun

rinking (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial, dated) skating in a rink

Questions about rinking

What does rinking mean?
Rinking means skating in a rink.
What is rinking the present participle and gerund of?
Rinking is the present participle and gerund of rink.
What part of speech is rinking?
Rinking is a noun.

Words near rinking in the dictionary

  1. rinker
  2. rinkers
  3. Rinkes
  4. rinkhals
  5. rinkhalses
  6. rinking
  7. rinkite
  8. rinkman
  9. rinkmaster
  10. rinkmasters
  11. rinkmen

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