skier
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1.5
- noun
- /ˈskiːər/
:
esquiador
- She watched the skier gracefully glide down the snowy slope.
- cross-country skier
- alpine skier
- skiers enjoy
I hate cross country skiers that walk around with the poles.
- I hate cross country skiers that walk around with the poles.
- And, and the two rugged Vermonters and the Olympic downhill skier are battling for first.
- She's legally blind and she's a Paralympian as well and a blind skier.
- Well, yeah, OK, what about maybe these cross country skiers?
- Like some sort of monstrous robot that eats skiers.
- I want to represent Mexico in the Winter Olympics as a cross country skier.
- I'm not a great skier, but I have a basic foundation of ability.
- Because the rescuer has no because in this case, the rescuer has no pre-existing duty to take the skier down the mountain.
- If you are a good skier, your heart rate isn't probably low, you're probably amped up.
Examples
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Mary Mary was a 17-year-old skier who was the newest NDG member.
Academic text (2010) -
Now on the downhill course today, you're going to see the greatest skiers in the world.
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Now have a skier racing down the same mountain.
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And his basically strategy as a skier was to just crash more than all the other guys.
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Hi, I'm world record skier Sean Brown.
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Belinda, the best skier of the three, would follow two minutes behind him.
Fiction book (1996) -
On winter weekends, the town can be crowded with skiers if the snow conditions are good.
Academic text (2005) -
That was my bliss as a cross country skier and member of the Australian Ski Team headed towards the Winter Olympics.
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Each time the lift stopped for the next passenger, the skiers higher up jerked.
Fiction book (1990) -
If you are a good skier, your heart rate isn't probably low, you're probably amped up.
Synonyms
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8.4
A person, often a woman, who enjoys skiing and dresses fashionably for the slopes
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3.3
A person who skis down a ramp and jumps far into the air
1
5.4
A person who skis or bikes down steep hills, often in races
A person who skis long distances on flat ground and small hills
Compounds
How Skilled
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1.5
81
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Skier is made of ski and the agent ending -er, and ski comes from an old Norse word meaning 'stick of wood'. Because early skis were wooden boards used to move on snow, a skier is a person who moves on skis.