skate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   move along on skates

   The Dutch often skate along the canals in winter

2. 2
   noun

   The act of skateboarding

   There's time for a quick skate before dinner.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of roller skating or ice skating

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

4. 4
   verb

   To move smoothly and easily.

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

   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.

6. 6
   name

   The ship of characters James "Sawyer" Ford and Kate Austen from the television series Lost.

   But 'Skate' fans ended the series quite disappointed in him, as it seems that even after leaving with Kate, they couldn't be together.

7. 7
   noun

   large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head

8. 8
   noun

   sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs

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”).