Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A usually rectangular area surfaced with smooth ice and often having a vertical boards erected around the perimeter and curving along each corner, used for skating, ice hockey, or curling.
- noun A similar area having a smooth hard floor used for roller-skating.
- noun A similar area, often having artificial grass, used for indoor soccer and other sports.
- noun A building housing one or more of these areas.
- noun A section of a bowling green large enough for holding a match.
- noun A team of players in quoits, bowling, or curling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To skate on or in a rink.
- noun A man; especially, a warrior or hero.
- noun A ring; a circle.
- noun A section of a sheet of ice, generally from 32 to 45 yards in length and 8 or 9 feet in breadth, measured off for playing the game of curling.
- noun The persons playing any one game on such a curling-rink.
- noun A sheet of artificially prepared ice, usually under cover, for skating on; or a smooth flooring, generally of asphalt or wood, on which roller-skating is practised.
- noun The building or inclosure containing such a surface prepared for skating.
- noun In lawn-bowls, a division of the green, about 20 feet in width, the center of which is marked on the bank at each end by a pin or other device.
- noun A side in a match. In curling, a rink consists of 4 players (called the leader, second player, third player, and skip or driver), each playing 2 bowls.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.
- noun An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
man , especially awarrior orhero . - noun A
ring ; acircle . - noun A
sheet ofice prepared for playing certain sports, such ashockey orcurling . - noun A
surface forroller skating . - noun A building housing a skating rink.
- noun curling A
team in a competition.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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While many Meadowvale residents are in bed at about 11 p.m. most nights, one man is busy tending to what he calls the rink of dreams.
MISSISSAUGA - Home 2010
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The Olympic rink is 10 ft. longer and 13 ft. wider than the NHL rink, which apparently affects defensive schemes and the general flow of the game. sigfraud says:
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When I was a kid we had natural ice rinks in all the parks and now a natural rink is impractical.
Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’ 2010
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A few weeks ago they started cordoning off the rink from the gym, school and other facilities.
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An NHL rink is 85 feet by 200 feet — a decidedly small place for 10 skaters (an international rink is slightly larger).
A Hockey Team With a Turbocharger Tom Perrotta 2010
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The Cubs invited Wrigleyville residents to a community skate Sunday before the rink is dismantled ($10 for a one-hour shift, with proceeds benefiting the Cubs Care grants fund).
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But did y'aaaalll know ... that bad-guy wrestlers and gladiators always (seem to) enter the rink from the left?
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"The heart of the backyard rink is this: It connects me to the people I love," Falla says.
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The North American rink is narrower and the schedule is more grueling.
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Then I called the rink and had to ask them to repeat their fee twice, because I was pretty sure I heard wrong.
ParentDish 2009
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