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skate

Pronunciation: /skeɪt/

The English word “skate” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
  2. The act of skateboarding
  3. The act of roller skating or ice skating
  4. A makeshift handcar.
  5. A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body.
  6. A worn-out horse, a nag, a jade.

verb

  1. To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
  2. To skateboard.
  3. To use the skating technique.
  4. To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
  5. To move smoothly and easily.

adjective

  1. Pertaining to the technique of skating.

Etymology

Back-formation from Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch schāetse, from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”) (compare French échasse and English scatch), from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *skakkjā (“stilt”, literally “thing that moves”), related to *skakan (“to shake, swing”).

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