water skiing
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈwɔːtər ˈskiːɪŋ/
:
esquí acuático
- The TAS contains 10 items that reflect participation in high-risk sports such as surfing, snow skiing, water skiing, mountain climbing, scuba diving, and parachuting, among others.
- go water skiing
- water skiing and scuba
- water skiing and snorkeling
So we play golf a lot and still hardcore water skiing.
- So we play golf a lot and still hardcore water skiing.
- Are you talented at water skiing as well?
- We're towing it with the, the water skiing like rope or, or whatever we call that, that sort of thing.
- She describes raising me as water skiing with a speedboat and and having like holding on by like one hand.
- She describes raising me as like water skiing with a speedboat and and having like, holding on by like, one hand.
Examples
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I saw people bathing, swimming, yachting, or water-skiing.
Academic text (1992) -
You promised Lelani could go water skiing today.
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Who wants to go water skiing?
Fiction book (1996) -
And I was water skiing on a spine board for fun.
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We wanna go water skiing Saturday at the dam.
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Water skiing is a very dangerous sport, Miss Dedham.
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I'm going water skiing.
Fiction book (1996) -
He loves boating, so he's been getting me into water skiing.
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In a major mailing exercise, the Water Project, New Zealand students visited their local water department and sewage treatment station, rode on a riverboat, and went swimming, canoeing, fishing, and water skiing.
Academic text (1994) -
Last summer, we spent the whole day water skiing behind a motorboat at the lake.
Synonyms
2
2.2
An activity of standing on two long boards on water while a boat pulls you
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3.3
Moving across water on skis while a motorboat pulls you
How Demanding
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sport of skiing on water' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'water' (the surface) with 'skiing' (the activity of using skis), so a learner who knows both words can infer the concept. This compound-like construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g., water-skiing equivalents in many languages) and follows standard English noun + gerund/verb patterns, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Water skiing creates a clear picture: someone on skis being pulled across the water by a motorboat. That's why it means 'a sport' where a person is pulled on skis behind a boat.