Definitions for rinks

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Spelling: [ringk]

IPA: /rɪŋk/

Rinks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in rinks (iknrs).

Definitions for rinks

noun

1. a smooth expanse of ice for ice-skating, often artificially prepared and inside a building or arena.
2. a smooth floor, usually of wood, for roller-skating.
3. a building or enclosure for ice-skating or roller-skating; skating arena.
4. an area of ice marked off for the game of curling.
5. a section of a bowling green where a match can be played.
6. a set of players on one side in a lawn-bowling or curling match.

Origin of rinks

1325-75; Middle English (Scots) renk area for a battle, joust, or race, apparently Middle French renc rank¹

Examples for rinks

There was a family named Adams in Saskatoon, and they had a rink with boards, between their house and the barn.

The rink cost $98.5 million, making it more than one and a half times more expensive than other Olympic equivalents.

We might go down to the rink father had made on purpose for Horatia.

He bought the rink and the ground beneath it and some more alongside.

The Eskimo hero is conveyed to his wife on a salmon's tail (rink, p. 145).

All were on their feet looking towards the back of the rink.

“Walking into the rink today I thought, ‘Wow, this is what I used to do every day,’” Kwan tells me on the phone.

I am afraid I can't get a rink built for you in a day, but I'll see what we can do.

We went out on the rink in the yard and pushed around on one foot.

Tens of millions of others watch their sports heroes wrangle on court, field, rink and racetrack.