water-skiing

1. 1.

   skiing on water while being towed by a motorboat

   Broaderwater sport

Questions about water-skiing

What does water-skiing mean?

water-skiing means "skiing on water while being towed by a motorboat".

How many syllables are in water-skiing?

water-skiing has 4 syllables and divides as wa-ter--ski-ing under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is water-skiing a common word?

water-skiing is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.