: a game in which two teams of four players each slide curling stones over a stretch of ice toward a target circle
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Keep it minimal for no seeping in and damaging, curling, or cracking, suggests Stein.
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2025
John Shuster skips the United States to a 10-7 victory for only the second curling medal in U.S. history.
2020 — Memorial service for Kobe Byrant held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Isaacson cites the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games, his first time curling in the Olympics, as spurning curling’s popularity.
—Graham P. Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
The folks over at CHI have created a genius device that actually does all the annoying curling and holding for you.
—Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2025
John Shuster skips the United States to a 10-7 victory for only the second curling medal in U.S. history.
2020 — Memorial service for Kobe Byrant held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Isaacson cites the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games, his first time curling in the Olympics, as spurning curling’s popularity.
—Graham P. Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
The folks over at CHI have created a genius device that actually does all the annoying curling and holding for you.
—Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Curling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curling. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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curling
noun
curl·ing
ˈkər-liŋ 
: a game in which two teams of four players slide special stones over ice toward a target circle
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