SKATING

skating

(noun) the sport of gliding on skates

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

skating

present participle of skate

Noun

skating (usually uncountable, plural skatings)

The action of moving along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.

(uncountable) The sport of moving along a surface using skates.

(skiing, uncountable) A method of propulsion, where one moves similar to how a skater propels themselves. A technique in skiing, where a ski is planted diagonally, to push off of, and one slides forward on the ski facing straight foward, and then repeats the process with the swapping of the feet's actions.

Coordinate terms

(skiing)

• striding

• double poling

Anagrams

• Gitksan, skin tag, skin-tag, skintag, staking, takings, tasking

Source: Wiktionary

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SKATE

Skate, n. Etym: [D. schaats. Cf. Scatches.]

Definition: A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice. Batavia rushes forth; and as they sweep, On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds, along, The then gay land is maddended all to joy. Thomson. Roller skate. See under Roller.

Skate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skated; p. pr. & vb. n. Skating.]

Definition: To move on skates.

Skate, n. Etym: [Icel. skata; cf. Prov. G. schatten, meer-schatten, L. squatus, squatina, and E. shad.] (Zoöl.)

Definition: Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal fin. The pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. The skin is more or less spinose.

Note: Some of the species are used for food, as the European blue or gray skate (Raia batis), which sometimes weighs nearly 200 pounds. The American smooth, or barn-door, skate (R. lævis) is also a large species, often becoming three or four feet across. The common spiny skate (R. erinacea) is much smaller. Skate's egg. See Sea purse.

– Skate sucker, any marine leech of the genus Pontobdella, parasitic on skates.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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