Abstract: A ski holder comprises a vertically elongated and fixed U-section guide adjacent which a vertically elongated and movable U-section guide having a lower end provided with an abutment projecting toward the fixed guide can move. A pair of links forms a parallelogrammatic linkage with these guides for relative parallel movement. A spring urges the movable guide from a lower closed position spaced relatively close to the fixed guide into an upper open position spaced horizontally relatively far from the fixed guide. A ski set on the abutment will automatically cause the movable guide to pivot downwardly and inwardly on its links so as to clamp and hold the ski.