What does Rink mean?

Definitions for Rink
rɪŋkrink

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rink, skating rinknoun

    building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating

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  1. rink

    A rink is a large flat area, often enclosed, where sports such as hockey, skating, or curling are played. In most cases, it refers to an ice rink which is a frozen body of water where people skate or play winter sports. However, it can also refer to a roller-skating area or a specific playing area for games such as bowls or curling.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rinknoun

    the smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling

  2. Rinknoun

    an artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor

  3. Etymology: [Scot. renk, rink, rynk, a course, a race; probably fr. AS. hring a ring. See Ring.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Rink

    ringk, n. the area where a race is run or games are played: a place artificially prepared for skating: a certain piece of ice marked off for curling—about 40 yards in length, and 9 in breadth. [Simply a variant of ring, a circle.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. rink

    A space of ice devoted to certain recreations, as a skating or a curling rink: generally roofed in from the snow in Canada.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Rink

    An American variant of “Ring.” In the sense of a skating rink the term has become popular in England.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. RINK

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rink is ranked #10396 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Rink surname appeared 3,099 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Rink.

    94% or 2,916 total occurrences were White.
    2% or 64 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.6% or 51 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.1% or 37 total occurrences were Black.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Rink in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Rink in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Rink in a Sentence

  1. Mark Howe:

    You can’t do it unless you love what you’re doing, if you love going to the rink every day and have fun at it, it’s a great job to have. Once it becomes work, then you’re done. It’s pretty clear he loves what he’s doing.

  2. John Lindeberg:

    He watches his brother leave for his high school hockey practices, and that's hard because and he really wants to be at the hockey rink, cOVID has been very hard on our house.

  3. Magnus Nedregotten:

    Now we all live separate places, so it’s not a problem anymore. But it’s still hard to just leave it at the rink.

  4. Loren Paul:

    While the Dash for the Cash may have been well-intentioned, it only underscores the fact that educators don’t have the resources necessary to meet the needs of their students, as a state, we shouldn’t be forcing teachers to crawl around on an ice rink to get the money they need to fund their classrooms.

  5. Chun Lee-kyung:

    It's a challenge because there is only one rink in Singapore, theoretically it shouldn't be a challenge as it's an indoor winter sport which means we aren't really limited by the outside weather, we can create as many ice rinks in Singapore technically, but of course we need to wait for more things (events and skaters) to come up so we can have skating in more parts of Singapore.

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Translations for Rink

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  • kenttä, skeittirata, joukkue, rata, rullaluistelurata, rullaluistelukenttä, kaukalo, jääkenttä, skedemestaFinnish
  • ᔓᐡᑿᑕᐦᐁᐏᑲᒥᐟ, zhooshkwaada'ewigamigOjibwe, Ojibwa
  • lodowiskoPolish
  • хоккейная площадка, катокRussian
  • வளையத்தில்Tamil

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