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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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Nordic walking poles are similar in design to ski poles.
—Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024
Most of them are insignificant: a tin can, a graft of clothing, an old basket or a ski pole.
—Angela Yang, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2024
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
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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 22 Dec. 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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