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SKIING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sport in which participants must travel on skis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("skiing" is a kind of...):

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Meronyms (parts of "skiing"):

traversal; traverse (taking a zigzag path on skis)

Domain member category:

piste (a ski run densely packed with snow)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "skiing"):

cross-country skiing (the sport of skiing across the countryside (rather than downhill))

ski jumping (the act of performing a jump on skis from a high ramp overhanging a snow covered slope)

Derivation:

ski (move along on skis)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb ski

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