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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But then things got weird when Flea said the woman stuck her ski pole in his face, which agitated him.
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2024
Perhaps not-so-coincidentally, ski poles were also made of bamboo in the mid-1900s, and mountaineers, especially in Europe, sometimes used them to hike alpine terrain.
—Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2024
The kitesurfing is crazy good Feb. 9, 2024 People fall on ski poles and rupture their spleens.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
The handles are made of hard plastic in a kind of old-school ski pole grip with a polyester wrist strap.
—Lindsey Lapointe, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2024
Perhaps not-so-coincidentally, ski poles were also made of bamboo in the mid-1900s, and mountaineers, especially in Europe, sometimes used them to hike alpine terrain.
—Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2024
The kitesurfing is crazy good Feb. 9, 2024 People fall on ski poles and rupture their spleens.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
The handles are made of hard plastic in a kind of old-school ski pole grip with a polyester wrist strap.
—Lindsey Lapointe, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
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“Ski pole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ski%20pole. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
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