rink
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.
Origin of rink
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How to use rink in a sentence
I wanted to do nothing else other than be at the rink, and work hard and train.
How Beyoncé Helped Figure Skater Adam Rippon Make the Olympics | Nick Fouriezos | January 26, 2021 | OzyThe two players frequently spend time together away from the rink with their wives.
Ilya Samsonov, the Caps’ present and future in goal, is ready for the spotlight | Samantha Pell | January 14, 2021 | Washington PostJose-Luis Jimenez, an air engineer at the University of Colorado, speculated that the spaces occupied by rinks keep the virus suspended, perhaps six to nine feet, just above the ice.
Youth sports have been hit with few coronavirus outbreaks so far. Why is ice hockey so different? | Ariana Eunjung Cha, Karin Brulliard | December 4, 2020 | Washington PostIn Vermont, an outbreak at a single ice rink ripped through the center of the state, affecting at least 20 towns in at least four counties, and seeding other outbreaks at several schools.
Youth sports have been hit with few coronavirus outbreaks so far. Why is ice hockey so different? | Ariana Eunjung Cha, Karin Brulliard | December 4, 2020 | Washington PostExperts speculate that ice rinks may trap the virus around head level in a rink that, by design, restricts airflow, temperature and humidity.
Youth sports have been hit with few coronavirus outbreaks so far. Why is ice hockey so different? | Ariana Eunjung Cha, Karin Brulliard | December 4, 2020 | Washington Post
Her father was a war amputee on benefits; her mother a cashier at a skating rink.
Hollande's Jilted Lover Valerie Trierweiler Tells All | Tracy McNicoll | September 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere 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.
Figure Skater Michelle Kwan Chases Gold in Rhode Island’s Gubernatorial Race | Nicholas McCarvel | April 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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.
Sarah's School Friend | May BaldwinIf it weren't so hot we might have a fine rink this evening.'
Sarah's School Friend | May BaldwinWe might go down to the rink father had made on purpose for Horatia.
Sarah's School Friend | May BaldwinWhat Dr. rink says of the Eskimo story-telling holds good, more or less, all over the world.
The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney HartlandOn the spot where the dining-room stands used to be an open air skating rink run as a private club.
Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century | Montague Massey
British Dictionary definitions for rink
/ (rɪŋk) /
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
Origin of rink
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