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ski pole
noun
: one of a pair of lightweight poles used in skiing that have a handgrip and usually a wrist strap at one end and an encircling disk set above the point at the other end
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Leave my pole-straps ON: This ubiquitous rule that governs all chairlifts, surface lifts, and gondolas (remove your ski pole straps) no longer applies to me.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 24 Sep. 2024
But then things got weird when Flea said the woman stuck her ski pole in his face, which agitated him.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2024
Perhaps not-so-coincidentally, ski poles were also made of bamboo in the mid-1900s, and mountaineers, especially in Europe, sometimes used them to hike alpine terrain.
—Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2024
The kitesurfing is crazy good Feb. 9, 2024 People fall on ski poles and rupture their spleens.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1920, in the meaning defined above
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“Ski pole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ski%20pole. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
ski pole
noun
: a pole that has an encircling disk set a little above the point and a strap for the hand at the top and is used as an aid in skiing
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