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ski-thru

ski-thru is the alternative spelling of ski-through.

Meaning of ski-through

Adjective

ski-through (not comparable)

  1. Of a ski lodge or other hotel establishment: providing skiers with the service of transporting their equipment, luggage, and vehicles to other establishments so they can ski directly to those establishments.
    • [page 14] [T]wo resort owners in the Ely area were asked if they would be willing to join forces and attempt to get a trail constructed to connect the two businesses and jointly market a ski-thru program. […] [page 15] The end product of this activity was the construction of trail segments linking...1971, Staff Paper, St. Paul, Minn.: Institute of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 14 and 15
  2. Of a restaurant, shop, or other establishment or facility: providing service to skiers while they are still wearing their skis.
    • Families can ski together in a friendly atmosphere on specially marked areas, and you and your children can spend time at our fun-filled Children's Adventure Mountain™ with special ski-through attractions.1992 September, “Get Away to It All [advertisement]”, in John Fry, editor, Snow Country: The Year-round Magazine of Skiing, Mountain Sports & Living, volume 5, number 5, Trumbull, Conn.: Golf...

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Forms of ski-thru

pluralski-thrus

Origin of ski-thru

A variant of ski-through; from ski + thru, modelled after drive-thru.

Questions about ski-thru

What is ski-thru the alternative spelling of?
Ski-thru is the alternative spelling of ski-through.

Words near ski-thru in the dictionary

  1. ski-resorts
  2. ski-slope nose
  3. ski-slope noses
  4. ski-through
  5. ski-throughs
  6. ski-thru
  7. ski-thrus
  8. skiability
  9. skiable
  10. skiagram
  11. skiagrams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ski-thru (page history and authors); ski-through (page history and authors). 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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