skier

See also: Skier and skiër

English

Etymology 1

From ski +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskiːə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːə(ɹ)

Noun

skier (plural skiers)

1. One who skis.

   a professional skier

   a poor skier

   • 2014, Alun Richardson, Rucksack Guide - Ski Mountaineering and Snowshoeing, page 126:

     Some ski instructors are allowed to take groups off-piste too, so long as they don't travel across glaciers, but the tour hosts and reps who commonly show skiers around pisted runs within large resorts are definitely not allowed to go off-piste […]

   • 2014, Patrick Armstrong, The Log of a Snow Survey, →ISBN:

     Townsend hare inhabit this area, particularly above the cabin, and a skier is likely to have one explode from a tree well and disappear into the whiteness as he skis by. Life is a constant bivouac for them -- they spend days huddled in tree wells during storms -- but I suspect they are as content and warm in their luxurious coats as we are in a cabin.

Derived terms

• alpine skier
• cross-country skier
• downhill skier
• heli-skier
• sit-skier
• skier cross
• skier-cross
• skier day
• skier X
• skier-X
• speed skier
• technical skier
• water-skier

 

Translations

someone who practices skiing

• Albanian: skiator (sq) m, skitar (sq) m
• Arabic: مُتَزَحْلِق (ar) m (mutazaḥliq), مُتَزَحْلِقَة f (mutazaḥliqa)
• Armenian: դահուկորդ (hy) (dahukord)
• Azerbaijani: xizəkçi
• Belarusian: лы́жнік m (lýžnik), лы́жніца f (lýžnica)
• Bulgarian: скио́р m (skiór), скио́рка f (skiórka)
• Catalan: esquiador m, esquiadora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滑雪者 (huáxuězhě)

• Czech: lyžař (cs) m, lyžařka (cs) f
• Danish: skiløber (da) c, skiløberske c
• Dutch: skiër (nl) m, skiester (nl) f
• Esperanto: skiisto, (female) skiistino
• Estonian: suusataja
• Finnish: hiihtäjä (fi)
• French: skieur (fr) m, skieuse (fr) f
• Galician: esquiador m
• Georgian: მეთხილამურე (metxilamure)
• German: Skifahrer (de) m, Skifahrerin (de) f, Schifahrer (de) m, Schifahrerin (de) f, Schiläufer m, Schiläuferin f, Skiläufer (de) m, Skiläuferin (de) f
• Greek: σκιέρ (el) m or f (skiér)
• Hebrew: גּוֹלֵשׁ (he) m (golésh)
• Hindi: स्कीयर m (skīyar)
• Hungarian: síelő (hu)
• Icelandic: skíðamaður m
• Italian: sciatore (it) m, sciatrice (it) f
• Japanese: スキーヤー (ja) (sukīyā)
• Kazakh: шаңғышы (şañğyşy)
• Korean: 스키어 (seukieo)
• Kyrgyz: лыжачы (lıjacı), лыжник (lıjnik)
• Latvian: slēpotājs m, skrējējs m (cross-country)
• Lithuanian: slidininkas m
• Macedonian: скијач m (skijač), скијачка f (skijačka)
• Maori: kairetiwai (on water), kairerehuka (on snow), kairetireti huka (on snow)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цаначин (mn) (canačin)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skiløper (no) m, skiløperske m or f, skigåer m

  Nynorsk: skilaupar m, skiløpar m, skiløypar m

• Pannonian Rusyn: скияш m (skijaš)
• Persian: اِسکی‌باز (eski-bâz)
• Polish: narciarz (pl) m, narciarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: esquiador (pt) m, esquiadora f
• Romanian: schior (ro) m, schioară (ro) f
• Russian: лы́жник (ru) m (lýžnik), лы́жница (ru) f (lýžnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: скѝја̄ш m, скија̀шица f

  Roman: skìjāš (sh) m, skijàšica (sh) f

• Slovak: lyžiar m, lyžiarka f
• Slovene: smučar m, smučarka f
• Spanish: esquiador (es), esquiadora f
• Swedish: skidåkare (sv) c, skidåkerska (sv) c
• Tajik: лижарон (ližaron), лыжабоз (lyžaboz)
• Thai: นักสกี (nák-sà-gii)
• Turkish: kayakçı (tr)
• Ukrainian: ли́жник (uk) m (lýžnyk), ли́жниця (uk) f (lýžnycja)
• Uzbek: changʻichi (uz)
• Vietnamese: người trượt tuyết

Etymology 2

From sky +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskaɪə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Noun

skier (plural skiers)

1. (cricket) A ball hit high in the air, often leading to a catch.
   • 2002, Jeff Green, "New Zealand win tri-series in convincing style", Cricinfo:

     However, when Guha returned, she picked the wrong ball to pull and hit a skier to Charlotte Edwards.

   • 2012, Harry Pearson, "There's always a catch – unless it's me or Monty underneath the ball", The Guardian:

     The second thing I did my best to get out of was the unpleasant position Monty found himself in rather too often in Sri Lanka: standing under a skier in the deep.

Anagrams

• kiers, Sirek, Kiser, keirs, siker, Keirs, Kiers, Rieks, Riske, keris, rikes, Rikes

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian ski.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skje/, /ski.e/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

skier

1. to ski

Conjugation

Conjugation of skier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	skier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	skiant /skjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		skié /skje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	skie /ski/	skies /ski/	skie /ski/	skions /skjɔ̃/	skiez /skje/	skient /ski/
	imperfect	skiais /skjɛ/	skiais /skjɛ/	skiait /skjɛ/	skiions /ski.jɔ̃/	skiiez /ski.je/	skiaient /skjɛ/
	past historic2	skiai /skje/	skias /skja/	skia /skja/	skiâmes /skjam/	skiâtes /skjat/	skièrent /skjɛʁ/
	future	skierai /ski.ʁe/	skieras /ski.ʁa/	skiera /ski.ʁa/	skierons /ski.ʁɔ̃/	skierez /ski.ʁe/	skieront /ski.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	skierais /ski.ʁɛ/	skierais /ski.ʁɛ/	skierait /ski.ʁɛ/	skierions /ski.ʁjɔ̃/	skieriez /ski.ʁje/	skieraient /ski.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	skie /ski/	skies /ski/	skie /ski/	skiions /ski.jɔ̃/	skiiez /ski.je/	skient /ski/
	imperfect2	skiasse /skjas/	skiasses /skjas/	skiât /skja/	skiassions /skja.sjɔ̃/	skiassiez /skja.sje/	skiassent /skjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	skie /ski/	—	skions /skjɔ̃/	skiez /skje/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “skier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• ski

Noun

skier m or f

1. indefinite plural of ski

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskjɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɛr
• Syllabification: skier

Noun

skier f

1. genitive plural of skra