What is "skis"

Usage examples of "skis".

So on the evening before the 26th of January, there was my table covered with brand-new warm Olympic underwear, ski pants, a couple of pullovers, a windbreaker and, last but not least, a pair of skis with bindings, and next to them the boots.

But suddenly it bent under me between my two skis when I hit it with all my weight.

Johannes said he understood fully, and he helped me take my skis off, put them in my car, and I was on the way back.

Johannes had the vision that the future of skiing was there, so he started with one Norwegian ski teacher, a tiny little workshop built into our garage, and about fifty pairs of rental skis and shoes in all sizes.

The fashions had turned to stretchables, whereas I was looking a little bit like Winnie the Pooh on skis with the wind flapping my pants when I came down the slopes.

He expected her skis to catch on the treetops at best, for her nose to crash into the ice at worst.

With that, a pair of missing skis and a fender bender, he stayed busy until the end of shift.

The assumption that I remembered Killy on skis came naturally to Roller.

Until then, it had been standard practice for the winner of any major race to make the brand-name on his skis as prominent as possible during all camera sessions.

They were white and apparently solvent, their average age around 30 -- the kind of people who could obviously afford to buy skis and make payments on new cars.

He skis, they say, with the graceless desperation of a man about to crash, fighting to keep his balance.

As our numbers thinned, he got up to little tricks like dumping us in the tundra forty miles from the base with only skis, a compass and enough food for one poor meal, just to see who made it back.

Ericson could keep going all day on those short, tricky running skis, floating over the miles with a rifle slung across his shoulders, and stopping every now and then to hit something with it at a thousand yards standing up.

Two short skis stick out of the front to do the steering and the passengers sit one behind the other in tandem like motor-cyclists.

A moment later we began to bounce as the skis touched and slid along the ice.