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skies

/skaɪz/

skies is the plural of sky though essentially synonymous with singular form.

skies is the plural of skie.

skies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sky.

skies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ski.

Meaning of sky

Verb

sky (third-person singular simple present skies, present participle skying, simple past and past participle skied or skyed)

  1. (informal, transitive) To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.
  2. (dated, informal, transitive) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen; (by extension) to put (something) in an undesirable place.
    • The artists—I mean the younger brood, and not the Brother Academicians who "skied" his pictures—were the first and the most enthusiastic in his [George Fuller's] praise.1883 December, M[ariana] G[riswold] Van Rensselaer, “George Fuller”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume V (New Series; volume XXVII overall), number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Century...
    Antonyms:
    floor
  3. (dated, slang, transitive) To toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin).
    • In ‘skying’ a coin for the purpose of deciding a point at issue between two parties, two methods are in vogue: there is either the ‘slow torture’ of spinning the coin thrice, the decision to go against the tosser-up, if the other party, twice out of the three times, guesses right on which side the...1894, C[ornelis] Stoffel, “Preface”, in Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students (First Series), Zutphen, Gelderland, Netherlands: W. J. Thieme & Co.; London: Luzac...
  4. (transitive) To clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin.
  5. (transitive) To hit, kick, or throw (a ball) extremely high.
    • Hernandez [i.e., Félix Hernández] walked the bases loaded, then fell behind 3–1 in the count to Bobby Abreu, who then skied the next pitch to left for a sacrifice fly.2009 September 8, Geoff Baker, “Seattle Mariners at Los Angeles Angels: 09/08 game thread”, in The Seattle Times, Seattle, Wash.: The Seattle Times Company, published 29 November 2012, →ISSN, →OCLC...
  6. (transitive) To miss a goal by kicking the ball over the crossbar.
    • He laid on the two best chances, both wasted by Pratt, who skied one and stubbed his toe on the other.1977, Tom Stoppard, 42:41 from the start, in Professional Foul

See all 19 meanings of sky

Meaning of ski

Verb

ski (third-person singular simple present skis or skies, present participle skiing, simple past and past participle skied)

  1. (intransitive) 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
  2. (transitive) 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

See all 5 meanings of ski

Words formed from skies

Phrases with skies

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Words that rhyme with skies

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Questions about skies

What is skies the plural of?
Skies is the plural of sky though essentially synonymous with singular form.
How do you pronounce skies?
Skies is pronounced /skaɪz/.

Words near skies in the dictionary

  1. skier-cross
  2. skier-X
  3. skiercross
  4. Skierniewice
  5. skiers
  6. skies
  7. skies the towel
  8. skies the wipe
  9. skiesful
  10. skiey
  11. skiff

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: skies (page history and authors); sky (page history and authors); ski (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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