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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rink
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ice rink
skating rink
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ice
▪ He got out of bed and fell to his knees on a floor that felt like an ice rink.
▪ She says her life revolved around the ice rink - she had to fit her personal life in around her skating.
▪ A permanent 5-inch thick ice rink is created at the beginning of the hockey season.
▪ Rudakov made an ice rink of the floor of his punishment cell.
▪ The company also supplies ice rinks and sport shops.
▪ The village boasts an ice rink, nursery ski school and boutiques, hotels and restaurants.
▪ Read in studio A company is being set-up to try to save an ice rink which was closed down two days ago.
■ VERB
skate
▪ We took the cable car up to the skating rink, and the view was stunning.
▪ On this cold night, the skating rink was a carnival.
▪ Margarett had gone from school to the skating rink.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A permanent 5-inch thick ice rink is created at the beginning of the hockey season.
▪ But the rink has been losing around £300,000 a year.
▪ It includes never-before-seen footage away from the rink, comments from players and game highlights.
▪ The rink was on two levels and had an Alpine atmosphere to it with pine trees and the snowflake effects.
▪ They have nice rinks and people, too.
▪ They settled first at Bournemouth, where Margie and Jenny had begged to go because it had a professional skating rink.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rink

Rink \Rink\, n. [Scot. renk, rink, rynk, a course, a race; probably fr. AS. hring a ring. See Ring.]

  1. The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.

  2. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rink

late 14c., Scottish dialect, probably from Old French renc, reng "row, line," from Frankish and ultimately connected with ring (n.1). Probably confused in meaning with ring (n.1) in sense of "area marked out for a sporting contest." From 1787 in curling; ice hockey sense first attested 1896.

Wiktionary
rink

Etymology 1 n. (context UK dialectal English) A man, especially a warrior or hero. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context UK dialectal English) A ring; a circle. 2 A sheet of ice prepared for playing certain sports, such as hockey or curling. 3 A surface for roller skating. 4 A building housing an ice rink. 5 (context curling English) A team in a competition.

WordNet
rink

n. building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating [syn: skating rink]

Wikipedia
Rink

Rink may refer to:

  • Ice rink, a surface of ice used for ice skating
    • Ice hockey rink, an ice rink designed for ice hockey
  • Curling rink, used to refer to both a curling team and the playing surface
  • Roller rink, a surface used for roller skating or roller hockey

Usage examples of "rink".

Then he went out to the roadside clachan which was Rinks, and turned his steps over the salty pastures to the riverside.

Five miles up from Point Dume, past the sprawling public beach at Zuma, and a left turn onto Broad Beach Road just past the rodeo rink at Trancas Canyon.

The entire hockey team was taking her course, so she held a couple lectures at the rink and had the heavily padded players act out the conservation of momentum through a series of inelastic collisions.

Consequently when he left the carriage at Rinks, he had two of their jujubes sticking in his damp fleece.

Moorish town houses, restaurants that look like car washes, car washes, shopping centers, a fish market, a skimobile shop, an automotive accessory shop, liquor stores, a delicatessen in three clashing colors, a motel with an in-room steam bath, a motel with a relaxing vibrator bed, a car dealer, an indoor skating rink attractively done in brick and corrugated plastic, a trailer park, another motel composed of individual cabins, an automobile dealership attractively done in glass and corrugated plastic, an enormous steak house with life-sized plastic cows grazing out front in the shadow of a six-story neon cactus, a seat cover store, a discount clothing warehouse, an Italian restaurant with a leaning tower attached to it.

Beyond the Rinks Hope I would cross the ridge to the top of the Skyre burn, which at its head is all split up into deep grassy gullies.

Herr, und sit down, I vill chust rink up the Yard and inqvire vot sort uff record.

When he was not working we spent a lot of time together- my mother, father, brother, and I-camping, fishing, hiking, playing broomball on the ice rink he built for us in the backyard.

Beyond the rink, the floor of the cave was one huge mass of blue ice, humped and creased, refracting the lights and fading into the distance.

They were silent for a while, which suited Marcie fine since the road had gone a stage beyond being glazed and was now like the surface of an ice rink.

On the ice rink on the bottom level, a girl was doing axels while her instructor counted aloud.

Day Care Center several years ago have been, at least temporarily, diverted to build an inline skating rink used primarily by upper middle class kids from outside of the redevelopment area.

But plowed fields showed farther on, private gardens, and towns with perimeter fences and fortress walls, and towns with main streets and white churches and ice rinks that looked as though they had never changed.

At the opposite end of the plaza from the school was a small amusement park, with crazy chairs, a rink of bumper cars and a Ferris wheel that stood against the night like a rotting decoration.

With Fiona's bare cement floors, it sounded like a roller rink or bumper cars.