skate

Noun

skate (plural skates)

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. Abbreviation of ice skate.
3. Abbreviation of roller skate.
4. The act of skateboarding

   There's time for a quick skate before dinner.

5. The act of roller skating or ice skating

   The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.

6. (rail transport, Philippines, chiefly Bicol) A makeshift handcar.

Verb

skate (third-person singular simple present skates, present participle skating, simple past and past participle skated)

1. To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
2. To skateboard.
3. (skiing) To use the skating technique.
4. (slang) To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
5. To move smoothly and easily.
   • March 26 2023, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian‎:

     Addressing a short pass from Henderson, he always felt too smart for Mykola Matviyenko, taking a step to lure him one way; dropping his shoulder and skating in the other direction, further inside.

Adjective

skate (not comparable)

1. (skiing) Pertaining to the technique of skating.

Noun

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skate (plural skates or skate)

2. 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.
   • 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:

     The fishermen crowding in the cafés were also waiting for the end of the storm, when the fish, reassured, would rise to the surface after the bait. Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions. Day was now breaking.

   • 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times‎:

     Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

Noun

skate (plural skates)

1. A worn-out horse.
2. A mean or contemptible person.

Declension

Related terms

Derived terms

• skaten

Declension

Synonyms

• apskate
• izstāde

Usage notes

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