skater

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

skate +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈskeɪ.tə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"skeI.t@(r\)/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

skater (plural skaters)

1. A person who skates.
2. A member of skateboarding subculture, characterized by dingy and baggy clothes, and often wallet chains.
3. (ice hockey) A player who is not a goaltender.
4. Any of numerous hemipterous insects in the family Gerridae, which run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.

Synonyms

• (in ice hockey): field player
• (insect): water strider

Translations

person who skates

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溜冰者 (cmn) (liūbīngzhě), 滑冰者 (cmn) (huábīngzhě)

• Czech: bruslař m, bruslařka f
• Dutch: schaatser (nl) m
• Finnish: luistelija (fi)
• French: patineur m, patineuse f, skateur m, skateuse f (skateboard)
• German: Schlittschuhläufer (de) m, Schlittschuhläuferin (de) f
• Italian: pattinatore (it) m
• Japanese: スケートをする人 (ja) (sukēto o suru hito), スケーター (ja) (sukētā)

• Norwegian: skater (no) m
• Persian : اسکیت‌سوار (fa) (eskeyt-savâr), اسکیت‌باز (fa) (eskeyt-bâz)
• Polish: łyżwiarz (pl) m
• Russian: конькобежец (ru) (konʹkobéžec) m, конькобежка (ru) (konʹkobéžka) f
• Serbo-Croatian: klizač (sh) m, клизач (sh) m
• Spanish: patinador (es) m, patinadora (es) f
• Swedish: skrinnare (sv) c, skridskoåkare (sv) c, skatare (sv) c (slang, mainly person who rollerskates (sv))
• Volapük: (♂♀ ice) sketan (vo), (♂) hisketan (vo), (♀) jisketan (vo), (♂♀ roller) luibilasketan (vo), (♂) luibilahisketan (vo), (♀) luibilajisketan (vo), (older term, ♂♀ ice) gladajukan (vo), (♂) gladahijukan (vo), (♀) gladajijukan (vo)

member of skateboarding subculture

• Finnish: skeittari (fi)

ice hockey: player other than goaltender

• Finnish: kenttäpelaaja (fi)

insect — see water strider

Anagrams

• sakret, strake, streak, takers, tasker, trakes

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French

Etymology

From English to skate.

Verb

skater

1. to skateboard

Conjugation

   Conjugation of skater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		skater			avoir skaté
gerund		en skatant			en ayant skaté
present participle		skatant
past participle		skaté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	skate	skates	skate	skatons	skatez	skatent
	imperfect	skatais	skatais	skatait	skations	skatiez	skataient
	past historic1	skatai	skatas	skata	skatâmes	skatâtes	skatèrent
	future	skaterai	skateras	skatera	skaterons	skaterez	skateront
	conditional	skaterais	skaterais	skaterait	skaterions	skateriez	skateraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	skate	skates	skate	skations	skatiez	skatent
	imperfect1	skatasse	skatasses	skatât	skatassions	skatassiez	skatassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	skate	—	skatons	skatez	—
1literary tenses

Derived terms

• skateur

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Norwegian

Noun

skater

1. indefinite plural of skate

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

skater m (definite singular skateren; indefinite plural skatere; definite plural skaterne)

1. a skater

Verb

skater

1. Present tense of skate