skier

UK/ˈskiːə(ɹ)/US/ˈskiːə(ɹ)/

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,809 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: skiers

A skier is somebody who slides down snow on runners. A good skier, a downhill skier, skiers on the piste.

The word is said with two syllables and looks as though it should have one, which catches readers out. A cross-country skier and a downhill one do sports with almost nothing in common except the word and the snow.

Definitions of skier

1nounskierSomebody who slides down snow on runners.B1+
“The skier raced down the slope and stopped in a spray of snow.”

skier is a person.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*skey- — to cut, split
Proto-Germanic
*skīdą — stick
Old Norse
skíð — stick of wood, snowshoe
English
ski
English, today
skier

From ski + -er. ski comes from Norwegian - ski, from Old Norse skíð (“stick of wood, snowshoe”), from Proto-Germanic skīdą (“stick”), from Proto-Indo-European skey- (“to cut, split”) (see also shed). Cognate with Old English sċīd (“stick of wood”) (modern a doublet of shide), Old High German skit (Modern German Scheit (“log”)).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Word Building

Practise this word

skier in the wild

Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing whereby skiers traverse snow-covered terrain without use of ski lifts or other assistance.
Cross-country skiing
In addition, the skier must have adequate upper and lower body strength, muscular endurance, and good balance.
Water skiing
In the United States alone, there are approximately 11 million water skiers and over 900 sanctioned water ski competitions every year.
Water skiing
Kraft, Glen Plake and Scot Schmidt, known as The Extreme-6 and all considered among the top extreme skiers in the world during their prime.
Extreme skiing
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Smirnov is a Soviet-Kazakhstani former cross-country skier of Russian descent who raced from the 1982 until 1991 for the USSR and, later, for Kazakhstan.
Vladimir Smirnov (skier)

1 / 3

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

← Vocabulary