curling
kur ling
- n a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target
- v form a curl, curve, or kink
- v shape one's body into a curl
- v wind around something in coils or loops
- v twist or roll into coils or ringlets
- v play the Scottish game of curling
- s of hair having curls
- In curling, a "rink" is a team, a "tee" is a goal, a "skip" is a captain, a "bonspiel" is a meet.
- Even little Denmark claimed its first Winter medal ever, in curling--quite a feat for a nation that doesn't have a functioning curling rink.
- Sweeping All Before It Making its Olympic debut at the Nagano Games, curling's mixture of skill and strategy proves to be right on target.