: a game in which two teams of four players each slide curling stones over a stretch of ice toward a target circle
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And $35 to watch the curling, which has never really caught on as a spectator sport here.
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Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 31 Dec. 2025
Major Winter Olympics events include hockey, skiing, figure skating, speed skating, snowboarding, bobsleighing and curling.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
If leaves are drooping or wilted as well as brown, crisp, or curling, underwatering is likely the cause.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2025
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Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 31 Dec. 2025
Major Winter Olympics events include hockey, skiing, figure skating, speed skating, snowboarding, bobsleighing and curling.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
If leaves are drooping or wilted as well as brown, crisp, or curling, underwatering is likely the cause.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2025
From the best tubing formulations to lengthening, curling, and Bambi-eye-producing picks, these mascaras restore life to lashes of any age.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2025
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“Curling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curling. Accessed 3 Jan. 2026.
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curling
noun
curl·ing
ˈkər-liŋ 
: a game in which two teams of four players slide special stones over ice toward a target circle
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