water-skiing
- noun
- /ˈwɔːtərˌskiːɪŋ/
- - Water-skiing?
- water-skiing and windsurfing
- sailing and water-skiing
- water-skiing and snorkeling
Examples
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A boat raced backward down a river, led by a man water-skiing backward.
Fiction book (1997) -
Water-skiing..
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A few of us are going water-skiing later.
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I went to summer camp on Lake George and, we had water-skiing, we..
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It'll be just like water-skiing, Philip.
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I was in camp, and a friend of mine was water-skiing... and a junior counselor was driving the boat... and the motorboat ran him over.
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Anyway, that's when I learned that Quaaludes and water-skiing do not mix.
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- Water-skiing?
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I watched these tan young bodies water-skiing and slurping down lobster on the screen.
Fiction book (2001) -
Many tourists enjoy water-skiing on the lake during the summer months.
Synonyms
A sport where a motorboat pulls a person on skis across water
Moving across water on skis while a motorboat pulls you
How Intense
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Morphology
Etymology
The word water-skiing joins water and ski. The ski part comes from an old Norse word that meant 'a split piece of wood', because early skis were wooden and used to glide on snow. That's why water-skiing means using skis to glide on water while a boat pulls you.