: a metal frame that can be fitted to the sole of a shoe and to which is attached a runner or a set of wheels for gliding over ice or a surface other than ice
Verb
hockey players skating into position
Couples skated around the rink.
She skated an excellent program in the competition.
We skate at the park.
The bugs skated along the surface of the water.
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Noun
Numerous institutional funds from Australia and abroad, representing millions of members, called for Woolworths to act for the skate.—Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Kahaku is also a member of the Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word skate team, a nonprofit sponsored by the American Skateboarding Association that focuses on giving girls and women in skateboarding opportunities, funding and recognition.—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
Lindstein makes great outlets, can skate pucks up ice and shows some blue-line creativity.—Corey Pronman, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025 Meanwhile, Connecticut skated into this game after exploding for 10 runs in the top of the sixth inning to turn its game on Monday night into a 13-1 rout of South Dakota.—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for skate
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English scate, from Old Norse skata
Noun (2)
modification of Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch schaetse stilt, from Old French dialect (Flanders, Hainaut) *escace, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Old English sceacan to shake — more at shake
Noun (3)
probably alteration of English dialect skite an offensive person
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