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Definition: Rink |
RinkNoun1. Building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rink" was first used: 1375. (references) |
Note: Rink \Rink\, noun. [Scottish renk, rink, rynk, course, race; probably from Anglo-Saxon hring ring. See Ring.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Sports & Leisure | The playing area, or --, is 138 feet long by 14 feet wide and is sprayed with water to pebble the ice surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: RinkSynonym: skating rink (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Park, plaisance; national park, national forest, state park, county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) a; arbor; garden; (horticulture); pleasure ground, playground, cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink, glaciarum, skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing; montagne Russe. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rink |
| English words defined with "rink": boards ♦ hockey, hockey game, Hogscore ♦ ice, ice hockey, ice hockey rink, ice rink, ice-hockey rink, ice-skating rink, icing, icing the puck ♦ penalty box ♦ red line, Rinker, Rinking ♦ Wich. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rink": ICE MAKER, SKATING RINK ♦ MANAGER, WINTER SPORTS ♦ olympic rink. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rink" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Manx (component, rink, scattered few), Swedish (rink). |
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Screenplays | The skating rink (You Can't Do That on Television; writing credit: Jean Chatenet; Jean Cosmos) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Fink in the Rink (1971) Gigantes do Rink (1947) The Rink (1916) Sex Rink (1976) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Midwinter carnival, entrance to Pontiac Rink, Upper Saranac Lake, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gathering hay on the farm of Emanuel Rink, dairy farmer near Brookline, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Skating rink, Flushing Meadow Park. Cafeteria. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Model, Central Park Skating Rink. Model I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wollman Skating Rink, Central Park. Exterior I. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Rink" by Zhe Zhang Commentary: "Vision on ice." | "Roller skating" by Vi Xs Commentary: "Skating rink at Albert Park, Middlesbrough." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Rink" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.88% of the time. "Rink" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.88% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.08% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 98 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rink" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rink | Last name | 1,000 | 13,940 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Wolstenholme Rink Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "rink": ice hockey rink ♦ ice rink ♦ olympic rink ♦ outdoor rink ♦ roller rink ♦ skating rink. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rink": rink-like. | |
Ending with "rink": ice-rink, skating-rink. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "rink"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shesh patinazhi. (various references) | |
Arabic | حلبة التزلج, تزلج على. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | място за каране на летни кънки, пързалям се, пързалка за хокей, пързалка за кънки (skating rink). (various references) | |
Chinese | 溜冰场. (various references) | |
Czech | kluzištì (icerink, skating rink), bruslit (ice skate, skate). (various references) | |
Danish | skoejtebane (ice rink, skating rink), olympisk bane (olympic rink), ishockeybane (ice hockey rink). (various references) | |
Dutch | olympische ijsbaan (olympic rink), ijshockeybaan (ice hockey rink), ijsbaan (ice rink, skating rink). (various references) | |
Farsi | یخ بازی کردن(درمیدان یخ بازی), میدان یخ بازی , سلحشور (Knight, Squire, Warrior), سرخوری روی یخ . (various references) | |
Finnish | luistinrata (skating rink). (various references) | |
French | rink, terrain, skating, patinoire (ice rink, skating ring, skating rink), faire du patinage. (various references) | |
German | Spielfläche. (various references) | |
Greek | παγοδρόμιο (ice rink, skating rink), τροχοπεδιλοδρόμιο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מגרש החלקה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | jégpálya (skating rink), korcsolyapálya (skating rink, skating-rink), jégkorongpálya (curling rink), jégkorongcsapat, görkorcsolyapálya (skating rink, skating-rink), fedett jégpálya (skating rink). (various references) | |
Italian | pista di pattinaggio (skating rink). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | リンガホン室 (language laboratory, link, link store, links, lynx). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リンク (link). (various references) | |
Korean | 스케이트장. (various references) | |
Manx | rink (component, scattered few). (various references) | |
Mohawk | tsi teyonto'tsinehtahkwa (hockey rink). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inkray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pista de gelo (icerink), patinar (paddle, skate, skid). (various references) | |
Romanian | pistã de patinaj, patinoar. (various references) | |
Russian | каток (icerink, ice-rink, mangle, skating rink, skating-rink, slide), кататься на роликах (roller skate, roller-skate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veštačko klizalište, klizati se (ice skate, skate). (various references) | |
Spanish | pista de patinar, pista (arena, circuit, clew, clue, floor, green, lead, line, path, racecourse, racetrack, ring, runway, scent, slope, spoor, tarmac, track, trail), patinar en ruedas. (various references) | |
Swedish | skridskobana (ice rink, skating rink, skating-rink). (various references) | |
Thai | ลานเล่นสเก็ตน้ำแข็ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | paten alanı (skating rink), buz pateni alanı. (various references) | |
Turkmen | taяganзak (mangle, slippery). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спортивна арена, ковзанка (skating rink, slide), кататися на роликах. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sân trượt băng, sân băng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | renc, reng. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rink": rinks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rink": brink, drink, nonshrink, outdrink, overdrink, preshrink, prink, shrink. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rink": antiwrinkle, besprinkle, besprinkled, besprinkles, besprinkling, brinkmanship, brinkmanships, brinks, brinksmanship, brinksmanships, crinkle, crinkled, crinkles, crinklier, crinkliest, crinkling, crinkly, drinkabilities, drinkability, drinkable, drinkables, drinker, drinkers, drinking, drinks, headshrinker, headshrinkers, nondrinker, nondrinkers, nondrinking, nonshrinkable, outdrinking, outdrinks, overdrinking, overdrinks, preshrinking, preshrinks, prinked, prinker, prinkers, prinking, prinks, shrinkable, shrinkage, shrinkages, shrinker, shrinkers, shrinking, shrinks, sprinkle, sprinkled. (additional references) | |
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"Rink" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crink, grink, Grinky, orink, raink, Ranc, ranki, Ranku, ranky, reink, Reinke, renc, renk, rewk, riek, rihk, rijk, rik, rika, rikk, rilk, rin, rina, rince, Rineke, Ringk, Rini, Rinka, rinky, rinn, Rinnu, rino, rinq, rint, Rinv, rinx, riny, rinz, rirk, rlin, roink, Ronk, ronuk, ryk, ryn, Rynek, Ryno, Trinko, vink, wrink. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rink" (pronounced ri"ngk) |
| 4 | r i" ng k | brink, drink, shrink. |
| 3 | -i" ng k | blink, chink, cinque, clink, dink, fink, ink, interlink, link, mink, minke, pink, plink, rethink, sink, stink, swink, sync, think, wink, zinc. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: kirn. | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: ink, irk, kin, kir, rin. | |
-2 letters: in. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: brink, drink, inker, kirns, prink, reink, rinks. | |
+2 letters: brinks, drinks, firkin, inkers, inkier, irking, jerkin, jinker, kinder, kirned, knifer, krooni, linker, mikron, nicker, pinker, prinks, raking, reinks, reknit, relink, ryking, shrink, sinker, tinker, winker. | |
+3 letters: arcking, barking, blinker, braking, broking, burking, carking, clinker, corking, crinkle, crinkly, darking, dinkier, dirking, dornick, drinker, einkorn, erlking, finmark, firkins, forking, funkier, gherkin, griskin, harking, hunkier, inkhorn, invoker, jerking, jerkins, jinkers, junkier, karting, keratin, kerbing, kerfing, kerning, kernite, kindler, kindred, kinkier, kirkman, kirkmen, kirning, knifers, knitter, kremlin, lankier, larking, linkers, lurking, marking, mikrons, moniker, narking, nickers, omikron, parking, perking, pinkers, pinwork, plinker, prinked, prinker, punkier, racking, ramekin, ranking, rankish, ranpike, ratfink, recking, redskin, reeking, reinked, reknits, relinks, rethink, ricking, risking, rocking, rooking, rucking, shrinks, sinkers, skinker, skinner, snakier, snicker, stinker, thinker, tinkers, tinkler, tinwork, trinket, troking, urnlike, warking, winkers, wonkier, working, wrinkle, wrinkly, yerking. | |
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