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Skating Rink

Definition: Skating Rink

Skating Rink

Noun

1. Building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Skating Rink

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

A stretch of ice for the purpose of skating. Source: European Union. (references)

Slang

Noun. Source: Ice skating rinks. Definition: The walk-in refrigerator. It's floor is always wet, slippery, and very dangerous. May also refer to the kitchen when the floor is being mopped. Context: Used to refer to walk-in, or to warn someone who's going in. Social Source: Waitresses. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Skating Rink

Synonym: rink (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Skating Rink

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Skating Rink

Specialty definitions using "skating rink": MANAGER, WINTER SPORTS. (references)

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Modern Usage: Skating Rink

DomainUsage

Screenplays

The skating rink (You Can't Do That on Television; writing credit: Jean Chatenet; Jean Cosmos)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Skating Rink

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Skating Rink

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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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Expressions: Skating Rink

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "skating rink": ice-skating rink, roller-skating rink.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Skating Rink

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ice skating rink

132

skating rink

41

roller skating rink

13
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Modern Translation: Skating Rink

Language Translations for "skating rink"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

fushë patinazhi (icerink). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مزلجة التزلج. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

пързалка за кънки (rink). (various references)

   

Czech

  

kluzištì (icerink, rink). (various references)

   

Danish

  

skoejtebane (ice rink). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ijsbaan (ice rink). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

luistinrata (ice rink). (various references)

   

French

  

patinoire (skating ring). (various references)

   

German

  

Eisbahn (ice rink). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παγοδρόμιο (ice rink, rink). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

korcsolyapálya (rink, skating-rink), jégpálya (rink), görkorcsolyapálya (rink, skating-rink), fedett jégpálya (rink). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pista di pattinaggio (rink). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

銀盤 (silver plate, surface of ice), スクリュープロペラ船 (scraper, screw, screw ship, screwball, scroll, skate, skateboard, skater, skating, squat, sucrose), アーリア人 (art deco, art nouveau, Aryan, climbing irons, crampons, eye, eye shadow, eyeshade, frozen treat similar to a Popsicle, IACA, ice, ice candy, ice cream, ice cream soda, ice cube, ice dancing, ice hockey, ice pail, ice pick, ice rink, ice show, ice skating place, ice smack, ice tongs, icebox, icecream sundae, iced coffee, iced tea, icefall, Iceland, ice-skating, icetea, icing, icing the puck, icon, iconify, ILO, IMF, intelligence quotient, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Labor Organization, International Monetary Fund, ion, IQ, iron, iron club, measure of area, metal pins of climbing shoes, popsicle, Rh, Rhesus factor, to take the radius). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぎ"ば" (silver plate, surface of ice), スケートリンク , アイスリンク (ice rink). (various references)

   

Manx

  

rink shliawin, laaragh skyrraghtyn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atingskay inkray

   

Portuguese

  

pista de patinagem (ice rink), pista de gelo (icerink, rink). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

каток (icerink, ice-rink, mangle, rink, skating-rink, slide). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

klizalište. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pista de patinaje (icerink). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skridskobana (ice rink, rink, skating-rink), rullskridskobana, isbana (ice track). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

paten alanı (rink), buz pateni pisti (ice rink). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

katok (r). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

коток, ковзанка (rink, slide). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Skating Rink

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-k-k-n-n-r-s-t"

-2 letters: antikings, straining, trainings.

-3 letters: antiking, ingrains, kartings, rankings, sainting, skinking, skirting, staining, stinking, striking, traiking, training.

-4 letters: airings, airting, antings, arising, gastrin, gratins, griskin, ingrain, kainits, karting, kinking, kirning, narking, raining, raising, ranking, ranting, ratings, rinsing, risking, saining, sinking, skating, skiting, snaking, snaring, staking, staning, staring, takings, tanking, tasking, trining.

-5 letters: airing, anting, asking.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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