skier

See also: Skier and skiër

English

Etymology 1

ski +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːə(ɹ)

Noun

skier (plural skiers)

1. One who skis.

Translations

someone who practices skiing

• Catalan: esquiador m, esquiadora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滑雪者 (huáxuězhě)

• Czech: lyžař (cs) m
• Danish: skiløber (da) c, skiløberske c
• Dutch: skiër (nl) m, skiester (nl) f
• Esperanto: skiisto, (female) skiistino
• Finnish: hiihtäjä (fi)
• French: skieur (fr) m, skieuse (fr) f
• 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)
• Hungarian: síelő (hu)
• Icelandic: skíðamaður m
• Italian: sciatore (it) m, sciatrice (it) f
• Japanese: スキーヤー (ja) (sukīyā), スキーをする人 (sukī o suru hito)

• Maori: kairetiwai (on water), kairerehuka (on snow), kairetireti huka (on snow)
• Mongolian: цаначин (mn) (tsanačin)
• Norwegian:

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

  Nynorsk: skilaupar m, skiløpar m, skiløypar m

• 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: skìjāš (sh) m, skijàšica (sh) f, скијаш m, скијашица f
• Spanish: esquiador (es), esquiadora f
• Swedish: skidåkare (sv) c, skidåkerska (sv) c
• Thai: นักสกี (nák-sà-gii)
• Turkish: kayakçı (tr)

Etymology 2

sky +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• 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

• Keirs, Kiers, Kiser, Rikes, Riske, keirs, keris, kiers, siker

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian ski.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skje/, /ski.e/

Verb

skier

1. to ski

Conjugation

Conjugation of skier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

present participle		skiant /skjɑ̃/
past participle		skié /skje/
infinitive
simple		skier
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple		skiant /skjɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	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 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “skier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• ski

Noun

skier m or f

1. indefinite plural of ski