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rink
[ ringk ]
noun
- a smooth expanse of ice for ice-skating, often artificially prepared and inside a building or arena.
- a smooth floor, usually of wood, for roller-skating.
- a building or enclosure for ice-skating or roller-skating; skating arena.
- an area of ice marked off for the game of curling.
- a section of a bowling green where a match can be played.
- a set of players on one side in a lawn-bowling or curling match.
rink
/ rɪŋk /
noun
- an expanse of ice for skating on, esp one that is artificially prepared and under cover
- an area for roller skating on
- a building or enclosure for ice skating or roller skating
- bowls a strip of the green, usually about 5–7 metres wide, on which a game is played
- curling the strip of ice on which the game is played, usually 41 by 4 metres
- (in bowls and curling) the players on one side in a game
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Example Sentences
Her father was a war amputee on benefits; her mother a cashier at a skating rink.
There was a family named Adams in Saskatoon, and they had a rink with boards, between their house and the barn.
We went out on the rink in the yard and pushed around on one foot.
“Walking into the rink today I thought, ‘Wow, this is what I used to do every day,’” Kwan tells me on the phone.
The rink cost $98.5 million, making it more than one and a half times more expensive than other Olympic equivalents.
I am afraid I can't get a rink built for you in a day, but I'll see what we can do.
If it weren't so hot we might have a fine rink this evening.'
We might go down to the rink father had made on purpose for Horatia.
What Dr. Rink says of the Eskimo story-telling holds good, more or less, all over the world.
On the spot where the dining-room stands used to be an open air skating rink run as a private club.
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