ski
verb/skiː/
/skiː/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they ski | /skiː/ /skiː/ |
| he / she / it skis | /skiːz/ /skiːz/ |
| past simple skied | /skiːd/ /skiːd/ |
| past participle skied | /skiːd/ /skiːd/ |
| -ing form skiing | /ˈskiːɪŋ/ /ˈskiːɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to move over snow on skis, especially as a sport
- Our children want to learn to ski.
- ski + adv./prep. How well do you ski?
- We skied down the slope one by one.
- We ski in the winter and sail in the summer.
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- go skiing[intransitive] to spend time skiing for pleasure
- We went skiing in France in March.
see also skiing, waterski
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Norwegian, from Old Norse skíth ‘billet, snowshoe’.
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