rink

[ringk]

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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.

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Origin of rink

1325–75; Middle English (Scots) renk area for a battle, joust, or race, apparently < Middle French renc rank¹

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There was a family named Adams in Saskatoon, and they had a rink with boards, between their house and the barn.
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We went out on the rink in the yard and pushed around on one foot.
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The rink cost $98.5 million, making it more than one and a half times more expensive than other Olympic equivalents.
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Tens of millions of others watch their sports heroes wrangle on court, field, rink and racetrack.
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You recall your sufferings during your first days upon the ice, or on the rink.
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The rink and the ground opposite the hotel were in full tilt.
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We might go down to the rink father had made on purpose for Horatia.
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HE world is like a rink, you know: You lose your wheel, and come to woe!
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While in the first tradition the moon is a man carrying a glowing light, in the other she is the moon mans house (Rink, p. 440).
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British Dictionary definitions for rink

rink

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

Word Origin for rink

C14 (Scots): from Old French renc row, rank 1

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Word Origin and History for rink

rink

late 14c., Scottish dialect, probably from Old French renc, reng "row, line," from Frankish and ultimately connected with ring (n.1). Probably confused in meaning with ring (n.1) in sense of "area marked out for a sporting contest." From 1787 in curling; ice hockey sense first attested 1896.

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