ski´like´

ski «skee; Norwegian shee», noun, plural skis or ski, verb, skied, ski|ing.

–n.

1. one of a pair of long, flat, slender pieces of hard wood, plastic, or light metal curved upward at the front and fastened by straps or special harness to the shoes to enable a person to glide over snow: »

With a pair of skis, a skilled traveler may keep up with a herd of reindeer and travel as many as seventy miles a day with a heavy pack (Beals and Hoijer).

2. a skilike device fastened to the undercarriage of an airplane and used in place of wheels for landings on snow, mud, sand, or the like: »

A Navy R4D (a modified DC-3)…[made] a tricky ski landing—the first landing ever made at the South Pole (Time).

3. = water ski. (Cf. ↑water ski)

–v.i.

1. to glide over snow on skis: »

to learn to ski. They tramped, they skated, they skied (Sinclair Lewis).

2. = water-ski. (Cf. ↑water-ski)

–v.t.

1. to go or travel over on skis: »

Ski Vermont! (Harper's).

2. to put skis on; supply with skis: »

When you are properly booted and skied, you must take the next big step (Saturday Review).

Also, skee.

╂[< Norwegian ski. Compare Old Icelandic skīth snowshoe]

–ski´like´, adjective.