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ice pad

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1864, OED Evaluation: Orig. and chiefly N. Amer.

An enclosed area of artificial ice used for skating, ice hockey, curling, etc. (cf. rink).

ExampleMeaning
I had a lot of fun I had a couple of friends we- you-know we used to bring our skates to school there was an ice-pad in the school yard and we'd go skating after school that-kind- of-thing.
An enclosed area of ice used for skating, ice hockey, curling, etc. (cf. rink).
Speaker: And you had to go across that school-yard in the winter time. Interviewer: So you had to walk on the ice? Speaker: Euh well the ice-pad wasn't there but it was ice. The school-yard was usually ice yes.
An enclosed area of ice used for skating, ice hockey, curling, etc. (cf. rink).
ExampleMeaning
So when I was little, those- when the harbour was not available, that's where we played hockey. We would carry our hockey-sticks down, and our skates, and we'd shinny the fence to get over by the oil-tank, and in there was the most perfect ice-pads you ever saw in your life. All you had to do was shovel them off. And we'd go in there and we'd play hockey in there.
An enclosed area of ice used for skating, ice hockey, curling, etc. (cf. rink).