sit-skin.
/ˈsɪtskiː/, U.S. /ˈsɪtˌski/ A ski with a seat fitted on top; spec.: one designed to be used by skiers with limited or no mobility in their legs.Quot. 1948 represents an isolated early use, describing one of various events held at a winter carnival.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > ski > type of
roller ski1930
sit-ski1948
longboard1950
monoski1953
grass ski1970
snowblade1990
1948 Ludington (Mich.) Daily News 4 Feb. 1/7 A sitski race for distance..will be held... Sitski must have a single runner with seat, and no artificial means of balancing.
1982 Clovis (New Mexico) News-Jrnl. 3 Jan. 22/3 She will compete in the alpine sledging event using a ‘sitski’.
1993 Sports Illustr. 13 Sept. 11/2 O'Brine, a four-time national women's sit-ski champion, had polio at the age of two and lost the use of her legs.
2015 Scots Mag. Apr. 84/1 She has..crossed the Indian Himalaya by handbike and skied the Valley Blanche in a sit-ski.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sit-skiv.
/ˈsɪtskiː/, U.S. /ˈsɪtˌski/ intransitive. To ski on a sit-ski.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > ski [verb (intransitive)] > using specific type of skis
roller ski1930
sit-ski1985
1985 New Mexican (Santa Fe, New Mexico) 24 May c1/2 Lovato sit-skis during winter using one ski and two crutches with outrigger skis.
1997 Chicago Tribune 16 Feb. xii. 5/4 He is the first person..to sit-ski across the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
2011 D. Thornton Living with Cancer 156 She..is currently working with AmeriCorps helping young people with physical disabilities learn to sit-ski.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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