Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of skating in a rink.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. Skating in a rink.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun colloquial, dated
skating in arink
Etymologies
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Examples
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The fact is, we have long passed the days when "rinking" was a novelty on the stage or off it.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890 Various
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Not surprisingly, long after the fad for rinking (roller skating) was introduced to England and America, it became a craze in Australia – and it was noted that there was no set hour for the fashionable to use the rinking rings; a maid could sail past her employer and even link arms with the daughter of the house.
The Season: Colonies & Commonwealths | Edwardian Promenade 2009
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Note that everybody from our favorite pinhead to our favorite Viking, er, skullbanging docoction-rinking pizza delivery lady has managed to see through your pitiful charade.
Convocation on Intelligent Design Creationism with Robert Pennock - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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'I thought you said you were tired out, and I thought, too, that the rink was specially built to prevent you from rinking here,' observed the latter, who was trying, with some difficulty, to keep her balance and her dignity during this peculiar mode of progress.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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That is better than rinking in your parquet hall, Mr Clay, 'cried Horatia, clapping her hands.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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'Yes, I'm here; and now, as I can't skate, and you don't know any one here yet, suppose we go to those raised seats there; we shall hear the band, and, I can tell you, our Ousebank band is not to be despised, and we shall see the people rinking, and if you see any one you particularly want to know we'll go down and ask Sarah to introduce her.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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'It's the very thing for rinking, and so is this boa.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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When they had made several rounds, Horatia stopped near the two tall girls who had come in first, and they immediately complimented her on her rinking.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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She spoke so vehemently that Horatia stopped her rinking and looked at her friend in surprise.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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Who knows but to-morrow may be summer again, and then it'll be too hot for rinking.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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