Definitions of curling

1. A game played on the ice with smooth, flat, cheeseshaped stones.

2. A game common in Scotland, consisting in hurling heavy stones along a sheet of ice, like playing at bowls.

3. A game played by sliding large circular stones, called curling stones, on the ice.

4. The act of forming curls.

5. A winter game among the Scotch, which consists in launching from the hand a cheese- shaped round stone with a handle, of from 30 to 45th weight, along the surface of the ice, to a mark, or tee, as it is called, some 30 or 40 yards distant, each player having two stones, and the principle of the game being the same as that of bowls on a bowling green. Curling- stones, stones for curling with. Curling- tongs, an instrument for curling the hair.

6. In Scot., a winter outdoor game played with smooth stones on the ice.

7. a game played on ice; curling stones ( heavy stones with handles) are slid toward a target

8. State of being curly.