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rink

[ ringk ]

noun

  1. a smooth expanse of ice for ice-skating, often artificially prepared and inside a building or arena.
  2. a smooth floor, usually of wood, for roller-skating.
  3. a building or enclosure for ice-skating or roller-skating; skating arena.
  4. an area of ice marked off for the game of curling.
  5. a section of a bowling green where a match can be played.
  6. a set of players on one side in a lawn-bowling or curling match.


rink

/ °ùɪŋ°ì /

noun

  1. an expanse of ice for skating on, esp one that is artificially prepared and under cover
  2. an area for roller skating on
  3. a building or enclosure for ice skating or roller skating
  4. bowls a strip of the green, usually about 5–7 metres wide, on which a game is played
  5. curling the strip of ice on which the game is played, usually 41 by 4 metres
  6. (in bowls and curling) the players on one side in a game
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rink1

1325–75; Middle English ( Scots ) renk area for a battle, joust, or race, apparently < Middle French renc rank 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rink1

C14 (Scots): from Old French renc row, rank 1
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When he returned to L.A. in the 1980s, he said, he earned his reputation by beating people up in the parking lot of the World on Wheels Mid-City skating rink.

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Canada has beaten the United States after the two countries battled it out on the rink in a championship game that proved to be about more than just ice hockey.

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It can turn roads and pavements into ice rinks very quickly and in more extreme cases the weight of ice can bring down power lines and trees.

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"They had been sought out and identified as the future of the sport," the club's CEO Doug Zeghibe told me while standing alongside the rink where the two athletes trained day in and day out.

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Inside is the sole ice rink in east and central Africa, a training base for the Kenya Ice Lions, the country's first and only ice hockey team.

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