rink

• (Canada, US, UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪŋk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

From Middle English rink, renk, from Old English rinc (“man, warrior, hero”), from Proto-Germanic *rankiz (“upright man”), from *rankaz (“straight, upright”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“straight, direct”).

Cognate with Scots rink, renk (“man, warrior, hero”), Old Saxon rink (“man”), Old Norse rekkr (“a straight or upright man”), Old English ranc (“proud, noble, valiant”). More at rank.

rink (plural rinks)

1. (UK dialectal) A man, especially a warrior or hero.

Borrowed from Middle Scots rink, renk (“course, battlefield”), from Middle French renc, from Old French reng, from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz. Doublet of rank and ring.

rink (plural rinks)

1. (UK dialectal) A ring; a circle.
2. A sheet of ice prepared for playing certain sports, such as hockey or curling.

   We played hockey all winter until the rink melted.

3. A surface for roller skating.
4. A building housing an ice rink.
5. (curling) A team in a competition.

   The Schmirler rink won the Silver Broom.

• → Portuguese: rinque
• → Swedish: rink

rink (third-person singular simple present rinks, present participle rinking, simple past and past participle rinked)

1. (dated, intransitive, colloquial) To skate on an ice rink.
   • 1877, Temple Bar (volume 49, page 479)

     Jack, who has a knack of knowing, seeing, and doing everything from its very beginning, had of course "rinked" on the only compo at that time laid down in London for the purpose, and visited by London's upper twenty.

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rink

1. second-person singular imperative of rinkti

Borrowed from English rink. Attested since 1921.

rink c

1. (sports) a rink (prepared sheet of ice for ice hockey, curling, or the like)

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• rink in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rink in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rink in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)