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
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 HillWhen Merle scrubbed the floors, they turned into small skating-rinks, though there might be a big fire in the stove.
The Great Hunger | Johan BojerSport clothes are for the tennis courts, golf links, skating rinks and similar places.
Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 | Lillian Eichler WatsonAs the rinks consist of four men only, could they not be spared during the Bonspiel period?
The Beaver, Vol. 1, February, 1921, No. 5 | Hudson's Bay CompanyRunning roller skating rinks was the most genteel business he ever got into, I guess.
Odd Numbers | Sewell Ford
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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