ski touring

noun

: cross-country skiing for pleasure

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In Finnmark, skiing may offer an additional challenge — going off-piste by going ski touring. — Susan B. Barnes, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025 What to Know About Skimo Backpacks Compared to your granddad’s unwieldy ski touring pack, a skimo pack is sleek. — Anthony Walsh, Outside, 26 Feb. 2026 Moonlight ski touring and snowshoeing in Colorado is a transcendent experience. — John Meyer, Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2025 The location is near a common ski touring path on which to access the huts, but there are other routes the group could have taken, according to maps from the Truckee Donner Land Trust, local skiers and guides. — Evan Bush, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ski touring

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First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of ski touring was in 1935

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