skier

plural skiers

1. One who skis.

   a poor skier

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   a professional skier

   The very thing the 16 skiers and snowboarders had sought — fresh, soft snow — instantly became the enemy. Somewhere above, a pristine meadow cracked in the shape of a lightning bolt, slicing a slab nearly 200 feet across and 3 feet deep. Gravity did the rest.

   2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013

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

   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.

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

plural skiers

1. ball gamesA ball hit high in the air, often leading to a catch.

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

   2002 July 19, Jeff Green, “New Zealand win tri-series in convincing style”, in Cricinfo, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2026

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   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.

   2012 March 29, Harry Pearson, “There's always a catch – unless it's me or Monty underneath the ball”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2023