skate

Meaning

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. Abbreviation of ice skate.
3. Abbreviation of roller skate.
4. The act of skateboarding
5. The act of roller skating or ice skating
6. makeshift handcar

Verb

1. To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
2. To skateboard.
3. 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.

Adj

Pertaining to the technique of skating.

Synonyms

ray

ice skate

⛸️

slide

glide

roller skate

🛼

leopard ray

stingray

skating

slip

ice-skate

eagle ray

iceskate

leather belt

bishop ray

duckbill ray

spotted eagle ray

bonnet skate

a contemptible person

lady ray

mottled eagle ray

spotted stingray

whip ray

slip fitting

spotted duckbill ray

spotted whipray

duckbill eagle-ray

spotted bonnetray

flying ray

duckbil ray

spotted eagleray

white-spotted eagle ray

rocker

roller-skate

runner

🏃

skates

ski

🎿

skim

slither

sunfish

whip

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skeɪt/

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”).