Abstract: An apparatus for waxing skis, where the skiing person glides through the apparatus with his skis on, comprises transport rolls, a warm air unit for drying and pre-heating the skis, and a waxing unit with a wax roll, 4/5 to 9/10 thereof being immersed into a wax container. The wax in the container is heated by a heating plate extending under the bottom of the wax container and having underneath an insulating layer. The apparatus further comprises a scraping unit with spring mounted scraping knives. For improving the finish of the gliding surface of the skis there is mounted a driven brushing unit, arranged after the scraping knives viewed in the moving direction, and comprising a pair of brushes mounted in pivoted levers and being forced against at least one tension spring, which is fixed to said pivoted lever and at the other end to an adjustable support. The apparatus is coin operated.