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From Norwegian ski, from Old Norse skíð (“stick of wood, snowshoe”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split”) (see also shed). Cognate with Old English sċīd (“stick of wood”) (Modern English shide), Old High German skit (Modern German Scheit (“log”)).

ski (plural skis)

  1. One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.

    • 1990, Leonard Maltin, Leonard Maltin's TV Movies and Video Guide, Penguin, →ISBN, page 55:

      Disaster at the newly opened ski resort where hard-driving tycoon Hudson is determined to double his not insubstantial investment while his ex-wife Mia is making whoopee with one of the locals championing ecology.

    • 2014, Inspiring Generations: 150 Years, 150 Stories in Yosemite, →ISBN, page 188:

      We skied back the way we had come for about thirty minutes when I saw her. Mary was hanging upside down by the tips of her skies from a tree well.

    • 2022 February 5, Adam Kilgore, Christian Shepherd, “A cauldron-lighting flashpoint one night, Dinigeer Yilamujiang was a skier the next day”, in The Washington Post‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-02-05, Olympics‎[2]:

      Yilamujiang grew up in Altay, a prefecture bordering Mongolia in far northwest Xinjiang. Chinese officials consider the region the cradle of Alpine sport, after cave paintings of hunters on skis were dated at 10,000 years old. Locals still use hand-carved wooden skis covered in a horsehide, although mostly now for the benefit of tourists.

  2. (aviation) One of a pair of long flat runners under some flying machines, used for landing.
  3. A trip made by skiing.

    to go for a ski

one of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow

one of a pair of long flat runners designed for being pulled by a boat over water

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

  1. (intransitive) To move on skis.

    • 2014, Patrick Armstrong, The Log of a Snow Survey, →ISBN:

      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 and warm in their luxurious coats as we are in a cabin.

    • 2014, Inspiring Generations: 150 Years, 150 Stories in Yosemite, →ISBN, page 188:

      We skied back the way we had come for about thirty minutes when I saw her. Mary was hanging upside down by the tips of her skies from a tree well.

  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

move on skis

  • IPA(key): /ski/
  • Hyphenation: ski
  • Rhymes: -i

Borrowed from Norwegian ski.

ski m (plural ski's, diminutive skietje n)

  1. ski
    Synonym: sneeuwschaats

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ski

  1. inflection of skiën:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Borrowed from Norwegian ski.

ski m (plural skis)

  1. (countable) ski
  2. (uncountable) skiing (sport)
    faire du ski ― go skiing

ski

  1. Alternative form of sky

From Norwegian ski.

ski m

  1. skiing

From Danish ski, itself borrowed from Norwegian ski, skid, from Old Norse skíð (“snowshoe, billet”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“billet”).

ski m or f (definite singular skien or skia, indefinite plural ski or skier, definite plural skiene or skia)

  1. ski
    gå på ski (plural) ― to ski

From Old Norse skíð n, from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“billet”).

ski f (definite singular skia, indefinite plural ski or skier, definite plural skia or skiene)

  1. ski
    gå på ski (plural) ― to ski

ski m (plural skis)

  1. Alternative form of esqui