rink

[ ringk ]
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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.

  1. a building or enclosure for ice-skating or roller-skating; skating arena.

  2. an area of ice marked off for the game of curling.

  3. a section of a bowling green where a match can be played.

  4. a set of players on one side in a lawn-bowling or curling match.

Origin of rink

1
1325–75; Middle English (Scots ) renk area for a battle, joust, or race, apparently <Middle French rencrank1

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How to use rink in a sentence

  • Boys have parks to play in and have artificial skating rinks and table luxuries and new forms of furniture and free text-books.

    Revisiting the Earth | James Langdon Hill
  • When Merle scrubbed the floors, they turned into small skating-rinks, though there might be a big fire in the stove.

    The Great Hunger | Johan Bojer
  • Sport clothes are for the tennis courts, golf links, skating rinks and similar places.

    Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 | Lillian Eichler Watson
  • As the rinks consist of four men only, could they not be spared during the Bonspiel period?

  • Running roller skating rinks was the most genteel business he ever got into, I guess.

    Odd Numbers | Sewell Ford

British Dictionary definitions for rink

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

  1. a building or enclosure for ice skating or roller skating

  2. bowls a strip of the green, usually about 5–7 metres wide, on which a game is played

  3. curling the strip of ice on which the game is played, usually 41 by 4 metres

  4. (in bowls and curling) the players on one side in a game

Origin of rink

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

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