skate

Plural: skate, skates

Noun

• sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs
• large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins
• 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.
• Ellipsis of ice skate.
• Ellipsis of roller skate.
• The act of skateboarding
• The act of roller skating or ice skating
• A makeshift handcar.
• 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.
• A worn-out horse.
• Alternative form of skite (“a mean or contemptible person”).

Verb

Verb Forms: skated, skating, skates

• To glide over ice or a surface using skates.
• move along on skates
  • "The Dutch often skate along the canals in winter"
• To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
• To skateboard.
• To use the skating technique.
• To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
• To move smoothly and easily.

Adj

• Pertaining to the technique of skating.

Examples

• He tried to skate past the fact he only had two vowels left.
• The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.
• There's time for a quick skate before dinner.

Anagrams of skate