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

/ rɪŋk /

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

Word 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of rink¹

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

Example Sentences

I wanted to do nothing else other than be at the rink, and work hard and train.

From Ozy

The two players frequently spend time together away from the rink with their wives.

From Washington Post

Jose-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.

From Washington Post

In 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.

From Washington Post

Experts speculate that ice rinks may trap the virus around head level in a rink that, by design, restricts airflow, temperature and humidity.

From Washington Post

Her father was a war amputee on benefits; her mother a cashier at a skating rink.

From The Daily Beast

There was a family named Adams in Saskatoon, and they had a rink with boards, between their house and the barn.

From The Daily Beast

We went out on the rink in the yard and pushed around on one foot.

From The Daily Beast

“Walking into the rink today I thought, ‘Wow, this is what I used to do every day,’” Kwan tells me on the phone.

From The Daily Beast

The rink cost $98.5 million, making it more than one and a half times more expensive than other Olympic equivalents.

From The Daily Beast

I am afraid I can't get a rink built for you in a day, but I'll see what we can do.

From Project Gutenberg

If it weren't so hot we might have a fine rink this evening.'

From Project Gutenberg

We might go down to the rink father had made on purpose for Horatia.

From Project Gutenberg

What Dr. Rink says of the Eskimo story-telling holds good, more or less, all over the world.

From Project Gutenberg

On the spot where the dining-room stands used to be an open air skating rink run as a private club.

From Project Gutenberg

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