Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A specially frozen surface of water on which people skate or play ice hockey. 2 A building that houses such a surface. 3 A roller-skating rink; a roller rink. 4 A building that houses a roller rink. n. 1 A specially frozen surface of water on which people skate or play ice hockey. 2 A building that houses such a surface. 3 A roller-skating rink; a roller rink. 4 A building that houses a roller rink.
WordNet
n. building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating [syn: rink]
Wikipedia
Skating rink may refer to:
- Ice rink, a surface of ice used for ice skating
- Roller rink, a surface used for roller skating
Usage examples of "skating rink".
He glanced around and suddenly found himself in Rockefeller Center, walking at a purposeless speed along the path lined with evergreens leading toward the ice skating rink from which he could already hear the needling strains of music.
Trevor and I walked through the door at the end of the hall and into a large, high-ceilinged room with several sets of wooden bleachers overlooking a large oval ice-skating rink.
Walking on to the center of the mall, she assiduously avoided looking at the skating rink for fear of the memories it would invariably evoke.
He saw the deep black of lakes and ponds, and the white oval of the skating rink.
On the skating rink, muscular girls in short flared skirts skated backward from a boy with an accordion.
Then, ignoring the throngs of people pushing past me, I began an intricate sketch of this long garden that led like a path to the skating rink and restaurant below.
That was Alton Darwin, whose dying words on the skating rink after the prison break would be, “.
As she drove Fia and Dory to the skating rink, she was still mulling over what Nine might be.
When I left the skating rink I felt sort of hungry, so I went in this drugstore and had a Swiss cheese sandwich and a malted, and then I went in a phone booth.
Sure, being a kid, I wanted to see for myself, what with the skating rink and all that, but I was never allowed it.
By the time they got on the ice at the skating rink they had all but exhausted then: collective knowledge of Christmas carols, and had had several sips from the flask.
So I came running aft - well, as fast as you can run on that deck - it's like a skating rink.