Skate

Pronunciation

• IPA: /skeɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Back-formation from {{3}} earlier scates, from Dutch schaats, from Old Northern French escache, compare Modern French échasse.

Full definition of skate

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. abbreviated form of ice skate or roller skate
3. The act of skateboardingThere's time for a quick skate before dinner.
4. The act of roller skating or ice skatingThe boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.

Verb

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

Derived terms

• get one's skates on
• roller-skate
• skateboard
• skate on thin ice
• skatepark
• skater

From Old Norse skata.

Noun

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Keats, stake, steak, takes