ski
/skiː//ʃiː/
ski noun: one of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.
Noun
ski (plural skis)
- 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.1990, Leonard Maltin, Leonard Maltin's TV Movies and Video Guide, Penguin, →ISBN, page 55
- 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.2014, Inspiring Generations: 150 Years, 150 Stories in Yosemite, →ISBN, page 188
- One of a pair of long flat runners under some flying machines, used for landing.
- A trip made by skiing.
- to go for a ski
Verb
ski (third-person singular simple present skis or skies, present participle skiing, simple past and past participle skied)
- 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...2014, Patrick Armstrong, The Log of a Snow Survey, →ISBN
- 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.2014, Inspiring Generations: 150 Years, 150 Stories in Yosemite, →ISBN, page 188
- 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
ski meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
ski in Hindi
- one of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow
- स्की skī
ski in Tamil
- பனி நடைக் கட்டை
ski in Marathi
- स्की, स्की करण्यासाठी
ski in Urdu
- one of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow
- سْکی skī
More languagesFewer languages
- ski in Bengali
- স্কী ski
- ski in Telugu
- స్కీ
- ski in Malayalam
- ഹിമപാദുകം
- ski in Kannada
- ಜಾರುಪಟ್ಟಿ
- ski in Punjabi
- ਸਕੀ, ਸਕੀ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ, ਸਕਾਈ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- ski in Gujarati
- સ્કી skī
- ski in Odia
- ସ୍କି, ସ୍କିଇଂ କରିବା, ସ୍କି କରିବା
- ski in Nepali
- स्की, स्कि, स्की गर्न
- ski in Tagalog
- eski, mag-eski
- ski in Arabic
- تَزَلُّج tazalluj
- ski in Thai
- สกี sà-gii
- ski in Vietnamese
- xki, ván trượt tuyết, trượt tuyết
- ski in Myanmar
- နှင်းလျှောစီး hnang:hlyau:ci:
Examples of ski in a sentence
- Chinese officials consider the region the cradle of Alpine sport, after cave paintings of hunters on skis were dated at 10,000 years old.2022 May 2, Adam Kilgore, Christian Shepherd, “A cauldron-lighting flashpoint one night, Dinigeer Yilamujiang was a skier the next day”, in...
- 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.2014, Patrick Armstrong, The Log of a Snow Survey, →ISBN:
Forms of ski
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | skis |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | skis |
| third-person singular present | skies |
| present participle | skiing |
| past participle | skied |
| past | skied |
Origin of ski
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”)).
Words formed from ski
- biski
- cross-country ski
- downhill-ski
- dualski
- heliski
- heli-ski
- hydroski
- jet ski
- jet-ski
- miniski
- mono-ski
- monoski
- nonski
- outski
- over one's skis
- sit-ski
- sitski
- skiability
- skiathlon
- skiathon
- ski ballet
- ski bazaar
- skiboard
- ski boat
- ski boot
- ski box
- ski bum
- ski bunny
- ski cap
- skicross
- ski cross
- ski dance
- skidance
- skier
- skifield
- ski hat
- skiing
- ski jump
- ski-jump
- ski jumper
- ski jumping
- ski-jump nose
- ski jump nose
- skiless
- ski lift
- skilike
- ski lodge
- ski mask
- skimo
- skimobile
- skinoe
- ski-nose
- ski nose
- ski orienteering
- ski patrol
- ski patroller
- skiplane
- ski pole
- ski-ramp nose
- ski ramp nose
Phrases with ski
- ski run
- ski tow
- ski wax
- shot ski
- ski bike
- ski bums
- ski caps
- ski hats
- ski runs
- ski skin
- ski tows
- surf ski
36 more phrasesFewer phrases
- turf ski
- wave ski
- apres ski
- après ski
- ski bikes
- ski boots
- ski boxes
- ski jumps
- ski lifts
- ski masks
- ski noses
- ski poles
- ski skins
- ski slope
- ski stick
- ski track
- ski waxes
- ski whiff
- water ski
- ski lodges
- ski resort
- ski school
- ski slopes
- ski sticks
- ski tracks
- ski bunnies
- ski jumpers
- ski patrols
- ski resorts
- ski schools
- ski skating
- ski jump noses
- ski patrollers
- ski ramp noses
- ski slope nose
- ski slope noses
Words that rhyme with ski
Questions about ski
- What does ski mean?
- Ski means one of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.
- What is ski in Hindi?
- Ski in Hindi is स्की (skī). See Ski meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use ski in a sentence?
- Chinese officials consider the region the cradle of Alpine sport, after cave paintings of hunters on skis were dated at 10,000 years old.
- What part of speech is ski?
- Ski can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce ski?
- Ski is pronounced /skiː/.
- What is the plural of ski?
- The plural of ski is skis.
Words near ski in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ski (page history and authors); ski (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ski (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ski (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ski (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ski (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ski (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ski (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ski (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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