skijoring
noun, verb
skijoring is a noun meaning “The winter sport of a person being towed on skis, especially by sled dogs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-K-I-J-O-R-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 78 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does skijoring mean?
noun
- 1
The winter sport of a person being towed on skis, especially by sled dogs
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of skijor
- 2
present participle and gerund of skijore
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of skijoring
- skikjoring
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is skijoring?
Skijoring appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Skijoring in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ski attelé |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does skijoring come from?
From Norwegian skikjøring.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).