skiing

1. 1
   noununcountable

   A family of sports in which skis serve as the primary equipment.

   Skiing ranges from gentle cross-country touring to steep downhill racing.

   The lodge offers instruction in both skiing and snowboarding for beginners.

   Note

   An uncountable name for a whole family of sports, usually narrowed by a modifier: alpine, Nordic, freestyle, cross-country or water skiing. The last is done on runners towed behind a boat. Because the word takes no article and no plural, a single outing is usually called a ski (a morning ski) or a day of skiing, never "a skiing."

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of ski.

   She is skiing across the frozen lake just as the sun comes up.

   The team kept skiing despite the worsening weather on the upper trails.

   Note

   The -ing form carries both of the verb's patterns. Used intransitively, it describes movement on skis (skiing across the lake). Used transitively, it takes the ground itself as its object, so people speak of skiing a slope or skiing a resort. As a gerund it names the act, and that use shades into the name of the sport.

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