Definition of "ski" []

• One of a pair of long flat runners of plastic, metal, or wood that curve upward in front and may be attached to a boot for gliding or traveling over snow. (noun)
• A water ski. (noun)
• Something that is used as a runner on a vehicle: a helicopter with skis for landing on snow and ice. (noun)
• To travel or glide on skis, especially as a sport. (verb-intransitive)
• To travel or glide over on skis: ski a mountain slope. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "We use the term ski mask, which may not be poetic but does at least have the virtue of clarity."
• "I have finally got to page 1 for google for the term ski holidays which is what I have been after."
• "I to at first thought he was a little psycho for fishing off of that thing until I met him at the boat ramp one day and realized that his ski is the absolute biggest one I have ever seen."