Ok when someone says they Ski what do you think they are saying they Ski in the snow or Ski in the water? I mean if it were coming up in a converstaion like I like to rock climb, play basketball, Ski, Box. What would you say they were using Ski as skiing on the snow or water?
2006-08-03 17:25:07 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Winter Sports
Snow, but I hate skiiers so it doesn't matter. I ride a sled in the pipe, not 2x4's.
2006-08-05 19:18:20 · answer #1 · answered by salvagedrover 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
well just because I'm a major skier, I assume they are talking about snow skiing. It's also more common to refer to water skiing as water skiing than snow skiing as snow skiing. When someone says, "Hey, I'm going skiing this weekend," you assume they are snow skiing. If they were talking about water skiing, they would probably say, "Hey, we're going water skiing, do you want to come?"
Also, water skiing is a fairly recent sport, compared to snow skiing, which has a long, rich history. Skiing is a sport powered by your own body, as opposed to water skiing. I've done both and the hardest thing about water skiing is the strain on your back muscles.
2006-08-04 04:07:49 · answer #2 · answered by SkiBabe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For me it means snow skiing but this will depend on the listener's geography.
In NC, it almost always meant water skiing. In NYC, Colorado and the Bay Area it meant snow skiing (alpine). At the South Pole it meant nordic skiing as it did in most of Wisconsin.These are the places I have encountered the word in casual conversation, and so I think it really depends on the context the speaker lives in.
To free yourself of geographical biases, maybe you should ask people who live in Eureka, Nevada.
2006-08-03 17:37:17 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Quark 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would take it as snow skiing. All the people I know that ski on snow call it skiing.......people who water ski call it water skiing - unless there at the lake and discussing their skiing adventures for the day,week,summer
2006-08-03 17:31:44 · answer #4 · answered by sudbury girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is skiing.. and then there is WATER skiing which is a variation of snow skiing. Thus when you mention skiing you are typically talking about snow skiing down a mountain.
2006-08-03 17:30:55 · answer #5 · answered by Joe K 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ski in the snow, as in plummetting down a mountain at breakneck speed with 2 boards strapped to their feet. If someone means the water, usually they'll say they went waterskiing.
2006-08-03 17:29:55 · answer #6 · answered by crazyhorse3477 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A sport... with two pieces of wood strapped to each foot...I think snow skiing, it's like skiing or water skiing.
2006-08-03 17:30:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
snow cause most poeple say water ski so i and i love ski so thats what comes to mind it just depends what you do moere or on the person speaking or being talked to
2006-08-04 08:03:39 · answer #8 · answered by spazywaffles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I Ski" would make me assume the cold snowy thing that people like to do in the Alps and Rockies. "I water ski" is what I usually hear from the people who like the wet half-naked thing done often in lakes. I am fond of neither, but that is how I interpret the term "ski".
2006-08-03 17:30:50 · answer #9 · answered by elliecow 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
snow, most people would specify water skiing
2006-08-03 17:28:32 · answer #10 · answered by opi 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
who cares... yeah if its in conversation and its said so whatever...maybe they ski on the snow and water.
2006-08-03 17:29:56 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋