rinkingn.

1792 Songs for Curling-club 16 Curlers wi' unfetter'd souls, That ane another's cares controuls, On ice conveen like winter fowls, An' please them wi' the rinking o't.

1870 J. De Mille Lady of Ice ii. 6/2 He was good at every thing, from tracking a moose or caribou, on through all the gamut of rinking, skating, ice-boating, and tobogganing.

1877 Law Times Rep. 2 June 481/2 At first rinking was merely skating on roller skates, but by degrees it has come to bear a close proximity to dancing.

1885 Graphic 3 Jan. 11/3 Men, since rinking collapsed, have ‘gone in’ more for football.

1911 Daily Consular & Trade Rep. 9 Mar. 1205 Roller skating, or ‘rinking’ as it is called here after the English fashion, is a fad at present.

1957 R. Fulford Votes for Women xxv. 240 The women spent the night..in the delights of ‘rinking’ at the Aldwych skating rink.

2003 R. Crego Sports & Games 18th & 19th Cent. 96 Roller skates were mass produced. In England, the sport was especially popular among the upper class..who found ‘rinking’ a stylish and fashionable thing to do.

1876 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. & Trans. 17 June 1013/2 India-rubber is necessary, too, for innumerable domestic purposes,..and, just now, a great many rings for the rinking skates.

1900 I. Savory Sportswoman in India i. 14 Before we dined that night, we went to the great Durbar Hall with the Maharajah and his retinue, and were all shod with rinking skates.