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Ski  n.  (pl. skis)  (Also spelled skee)  A long, flat, narrow runner made of wood, plastic or metal, curved upwards in front, having a fitting allowing it to be attached to the foot, and used for gliding or sliding over snow. Commonly used in the plural, to designate the pair.





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"Ski" Quotes from Famous Books



... days the experienced oil men made futile efforts to extinguish the gusher and to cap the shaft. When they were of no assistance in this work, Norman and Roy overhauled the airship and substituted the ski-like runners in place of ...
— On the Edge of the Arctic - An Aeroplane in Snowland • Harry Lincoln Sayler
... a lawyerish person in civilian clothes, with a bored expression, plus a moustache of dreamy proportions with which the owner constantly imitated a gentleman ringing for a drink. Two appertained to a splendid old dotard (a face all ski-jumps and toboggan slides), on whose protruding chest the rosette of the Legion pompously squatted. Numbers five and six had reference to Monsieur, who had seated himself before I had time to focus my ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings
... ever present pursuit of the academic, the whole college is having the most glorious time hiking over the countryside on snowshoes, risking its dignity and perhaps its neck in attempting the ski jump on Pageant Field, and "hooking" rides with the small village boys on their bob sleds down the long hill on College Street. South Hadley is such a tiny town, anyway, that it is just like living in the country with lovely mountains ...
— The 1926 Tatler • Various
... things as dairy utensils, while the women in many parts weave sufficient cloth to keep the whole family clothed. By the younger men, however, the season is looked forward to as a time of real enjoyment. Then it is that they get out their snowshoes and enter with zest into the grand sport of ski-ing, or, taking their guns with them, go off on their ski to shoot ryper ...
— Peeps at Many Lands: Norway • A.F. Mockler-Ferryman


Words linked to "Ski" :   locomote, athletics, ski wax, ski pole, ski parka, schuss, ski trail, move, ski jumping, travel, ski binding, ski jacket, ski resort, ski lift, ski tow, ski boot, ski jump, slalom, hot-dog, ski-plane, wedel, sport, ski rack, ski slope, skier, water ski, ski jumper, skiing


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