- Curling, is a precision team sport similar to bowls or bocce, played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice by two teams of four players each, using heavy polished granite stones which they slide down the ice towards an archery-like target called the house. Points are scored by the proximity of a team's rocks to the center of the target. The level of precision and complex nature of the strategic thinking required to win has led curling to be referred to as "chess on ice"

• Etymology: Unclear: probably from the Scottish 'curr', which means 'to make a low or hoarse murmuring sound'
• Synonym: chess on ice

- Act or effect of curling or becoming curly.

• Synonym: crimp
• Synonym: friezing