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rink

[ ringk ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

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 rink¹

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

Origin of rink¹

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

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

There 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.

The 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.

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

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

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

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

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