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
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滑雪者 (huáxuězhě)

• Czech: lyžař (cs) m
• Danish: skiløber (da) 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
• Greek: σκιέρ (el) m, f (skiér)
• Hungarian: síelő (hu)
• Icelandic: skíðamaður m
• Italian: sciatore (it) m

• 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 m

• Polish: narciarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: esquiador (pt) m
• 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)
• Swedish: skidåkare (sv) c
• 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): /ski.je/

Verb

skier

1. to ski

Conjugation

  Conjugation of skier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		skier			avoir skié
gerund		en skiant			en ayant skié
present participle		skiant /skjɑ̃/
past participle		skié /skje/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic1	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	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	skie /ski/	skies /ski/	skie /ski/	skiions /ski.jɔ̃/	skiiez /ski.je/	skient /ski/
	imperfect1	skiasse /skjas/	skiasses /skjas/	skiât /skja/	skiassions /skja.sjɔ̃/	skiassiez /skja.sje/	skiassent /skjas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	skie /ski/	—	skions /skjɔ̃/	skiez /skje/	—
1literary tenses

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, f

1. indefinite plural of ski