plural skis also ski
1
a
: one of a pair of narrow strips of wood, metal, or plastic curving upward in front that are used especially for gliding over snow
b
2
: a piece of material that resembles a ski and is used as a runner on a vehicle
: to glide on skis in travel or as a sport
: to travel or pass over on skis
skier
noun
Examples of ski in a Sentence
Verb
I have skied that mountain before.
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Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2026
Ebba Andersson tumbled and snapped the ski binding in the second leg, giving Norway the advantage on a day where warm weather caused slushy corners that created havoc in the early stages.
—ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
Andrew Dampf, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026
Johnson is the second American woman to ever win the Olympic gold medal in downhill skiing, the first being Vonn at the 2010 Vancouver Games.
—Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
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Noun
Four people are dead after a small plane crashed Friday on a mountain near the Colorado ski resort community of Steamboat Springs, authorities said.
—Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2026
Ebba Andersson tumbled and snapped the ski binding in the second leg, giving Norway the advantage on a day where warm weather caused slushy corners that created havoc in the early stages.
—ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
Verb
Not since perhaps Hermann Maier's cartwheeling crash at the 1998 Nagano Games had there been such a high-profile and spectacular fall in Alpine skiing at the Olympics.
—Andrew Dampf, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026
Johnson is the second American woman to ever win the Olympic gold medal in downhill skiing, the first being Vonn at the 2010 Vancouver Games.
—Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
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“Ski.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ski. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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ski
1 of 2 noun
plural skis
: one of a pair of narrow strips of wood, metal, or plastic curving upward in front that are used for gliding over snow or water
ski
2 of 2 verb
skied; skiing
: to glide on skis
skier
noun
Etymology
Noun
from Norwegian ski "a ski," from an early Norse word skīth "a stick of wood"
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