skiingn.
1. The action of travelling or running on skis, esp. as a sport.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > travelling on skis
skiing1893
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun]
ski-running1854
skiing1893
snow-skiing1941
1893 Daily News 31 Jan. 5/3 If we had winter worth speaking of here, ski-ing would soon take a prominent place among our field sports.
1895 Advance (Chicago) 4 Apr. 967/2 It must be a very funny sight, that of the skeeing down hill.
1911 A. Bennett Card xi. 273 Ski-ing became the rage... The Captain said ‘skee’, but he did not object to ‘shee’... People with no shame..said brazenly ‘sky’.
1927 E. Hemingway in V. W. Brooks Amer. Caravan 46 In the Silvretta the ski-ing had been all right, but it was spring ski-ing.
1975 New Yorker 21 Apr. 40/3 It has been raining a lot, ruining the skiing.
2. Water-skiing.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > other water sports > [noun] > water-skiing
waterskiing1914
skiing1971
1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird xii. 161 I have never yet met..a man who with greater clarity could teach me to water-ski... I made a reasonable success, for a beginner, at skiing.
3. attributive.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [adjective]
skiing1921
1921 A. Lunn Alpine Ski-ing 16 (caption) Ski-ing slopes at Scheidegg.
1932 W. H. Auden in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1978) Aug. 283 A waxen sandboy in skiing kit.
1946 G. Millar Horned Pigeon xx. 306 The first passengers to arrive..wore ski-ing clothes.
1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids vi. 107 She had chosen a dark-blue skiing suit.
1961 ‘J. le Carré’ Call for Dead xviii. 191 She met Dieter on a skiing holiday in Germany.
1978 S. Sheldon Bloodline ii. 30 He skipped skiing lessons in order to go into the village with Anna.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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