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  • noun curling The player who throws the fifth and sixth rocks for a team

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Examples

  • The 24-year-old skip and leader of the U.S. women's Olympic curling team and her sister Jamie, 25, the vice-skip, grew up at the Bemidji (Minn.)

    USATODAY.com - Curler thrives with stone-age family 2006

  • "We would've liked to have won, but we knew we were just playing for position when we came in," vice-skip Shawn Rojeski said afterwards.

    USATODAY.com - Canada beats U.S. to take final spot in medal round 2006

  • Olympic silver medallist Cheryl Bernard announced Thursday that she will reunite with vice-skip Susan O'Connor next season on a reconfigured team that also has newcomers Lori Olson-Johns and Jennifer Sadleir replacing Carolyn Darbyshire and Cori Morris on the front end.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • Manitoba skip Kelly Robertson finished round robin play with a 9-6 victory over Newfoundland and Labrador's Jeff Thomas at the Canadian senior men's curling championship on Thursday in Digby, N.S. Olympic silver medallist Cheryl Bernard announced Thursday that she will reunite with vice-skip Susan O'Connor next season on a reconfigured team that also has newcomers Lori Olson-Johns and Jennifer Sadleir replacing Carolyn Darbyshire and Cori Morris on the front end.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • "We tried to keep that on the down-low," said the 31-year-old vice-skip of Kevin Martin's Canadian

    WN.com - Articles related to Ottawa wants supreme court's take on multi-billion-dollar tobacco suit 2010

  • "We tried to keep that on the down-low," said the 31-year-old vice-skip of Kevin Martin's Canadian

    WN.com - Articles related to Ottawa wants supreme court's take on multi-billion-dollar tobacco suit 2010

  • The vice-skip for Kevin Martin's Alberta champions put in a short day of work Tuesday at the Pengrowth Saddledome, polishing off a pair of easy six-end victories with teammates second Marc Kennedy and lead Ben Hebert.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

  • Consider that the past two years, the vice-skip for Kevin Martin's Alberta men's curling championship team has been involved in an off-ice incident that landed him in the hospital.

    canada.com Top Stories 2009

  • Other members of the new Team USA besides Lank are vice-skip Erika Brown, second Nicole Joraanstad and lead Natalie Nicholson.

    USATODAY.com - Defending U.S. champs fall in curling finals 2004

  • "We've seen that with John (Morris, Alberta's vice-skip, who had some tough outings against Howard earlier this season) in a couple of our previous games; if Brent and Craig can put me in an offensive position, and then I can make a good come-around, all of a sudden, it's different shots for John.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

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