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skier
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
skier
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
▪ His friends were the best skiers on earth, too.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ace pilot/player/skier etc
extreme athlete/surfer/skier etc
▪ Be an extreme athlete; or better yet, look like one on your way to the grocery store.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cross-country skiers are a strange lot.
▪ It almost ensures that the skier will lose his or her grip on the ice, and most likely fall.
▪ Nor am I going to be the world's greatest skier.
▪ Of all the Snow Freaks, it is the skiers who are the most annoying by far.
▪ Other skiers who were walking along the path above us towards Chamonix watched in disbelief.
▪ Smashing down mogul fields all day long, day after day, sounds great to skiers in their 20s.
▪ Sometimes expert langlauf skiers in skintight Dayglo outfits would slide past us.
▪ Zermatt, for example, is a resort where many skiers must have wished for better links.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
skier

1895, agent noun from ski (v.).

Wiktionary
skier

Etymology 1 n. One who skis. Etymology 2

n. (label en cricket) A ball hit high in the air, often leading to a catch.

WordNet
skier

n. someone who skis

Usage examples of "skier".

Just when it seemed the gunner had the T-34 in his sights, the Russian skidded, turned full to the side like a slalom skier kicking up dirt instead of snow, then raced across the center line back to the right in an extraordinary zigzag.

He walked below it on the well-trampled snow and stood among the skiers at the top of the first plunging schuss of the Gloria run.

Skiers and tennis-players alike know the uses of Dextro Energen and avail themselves of it.

Furies battle, that was a condition of serving at the post, but the Furies tale sounded like one of those grandiose stories skiers told when they got off the hill, trying to make a normal run seem like something special.

I had once or twice tried my hand in a piobaireachd competition, but it had been like a novice downhill skier taking on Klammer or Killy, an interesting experience memorable only for not having made an absolute fool of oneself.

Ten feet behind him, the owner of this cursed device is surfing, taking him for a ride, skateboarding along like a water skier behind a boat.

They drove around in a slow arc, passing incoming snowmobiles, cross-country skiers, and snowshoers Farther out, there were car races to watch, and farther still, open patches where ice sailers caught the wind in a stream of vivid colors against the snow.

A skier who thinks too much might make points in conversation, but he seldom wins races.

Most cyclists are harmless weekend types, no more dangerous than skiers or skin-divers.

The rescue teams had arrived, professional skiers wearing backpacks and controlling a number of German shepherds.

They brought with them five more vacationing skiers who had been trapped by the avalanche.

I could see skiers gathered in the dark, toking up and passing wineskins while hooting.

Championship skiers, like karate masters, need muscles that most men never develop.

It is a raw and peaceful little village, especially in the off season with neither winter skiers nor summer fishermen to dilute the image.

It was for dealing with loud-mouthed skiers and their giggling bunnies that God said, on the eighth day, let there also be handguns!