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skate

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See also: Skate, skaté, skatē, and скате

English

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Ice skates.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /skeɪt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪt
  • Hyphenation: skate

Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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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”).

Noun

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skate (plural skates)

  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. Ellipsis of ice skate.
  3. Ellipsis of roller skate.
  4. The act of skateboarding
    There's time for a quick skate before dinner.
  5. The act of roller skating or ice skating
    The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.
  6. (rail transport, Philippines, chiefly Bicol) A makeshift handcar.
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Verb

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skate (third-person singular simple present skates, present participle skating, simple past and past participle skated)

  1. To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
  2. To skateboard.
  3. (skiing) To use the skating technique.
  4. (slang) To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
  5. To move smoothly and easily.
    • March 26 2023, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      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.
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Adjective

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skate (not comparable)

  1. (skiing) Pertaining to the technique of skating.

Derived terms

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from Etymology 1

Etymology 2

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A drawing of a cuckoo skate (Leucoraja naevus)

From Middle English skat, scate (also schat), from Old Norse skata (“skate”). Cognate with Icelandic skata (“skate, ray”), Norwegian skate (“skate”).

Noun

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skate (plural skates or skate)

  2. 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.
    • 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:
      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.
    • 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times‎[2]:
      Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.
    • 2025 September 13, Daniel Thomas, “Lunch with the FT: Shonda Rhimes”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
      I opt for skate, which comes with a Champagne sauce, and a glass of Californian Pinot Gris.
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Etymology 3

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Origin uncertain,[1] but probably related to skite.

Noun

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skate (plural skates)

  1. A worn-out horse.
  2. Alternative form of skite (“a mean or contemptible person”).
Derived terms
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References

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  1. ^ “skate, n.3”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

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  • “skate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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Basque

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Etymology

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From English skate.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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skate inan

  1. skateboard
  2. skateboarding

Declension

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Declension of skate (inan V-stem12)
indefinite singular plural proximal plural
absolutive skate skatea skateak skateok
ergative skatek skateak skateek skateok
dative skateri skateari skateei skateoi
genitive skateren skatearen skateen skateon
comitative skaterekin skatearekin skateekin skateokin
causative skaterengatik skatearengatik skateengatik skateongatik
benefactive skaterentzat skatearentzat skateentzat skateontzat
instrumental skatez skateaz skateez skateotaz
innesive skatetan skatean skateetan skateotan
locative skatetako skateko skateetako skateotako
allative skatetara skatera skateetara skateotara
terminative skatetaraino skateraino skateetaraino skateotaraino
directive skatetarantz skaterantz skateetarantz skateotarantz
destinative skatetarako skaterako skateetarako skateotarako
ablative skatetatik skatetik skateetatik skateotatik
partitive skaterik — — —
prolative skatetzat — — —

1. Optionally, case suffixes can be separated from the root with a hyphen.
2. Words ending in a written vowel but pronounced with a final consonant follow consonant declension in speech but vowel declension in writing.

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Further reading

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  • “skate”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Dutch

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Etymology

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From English skate, back-formed from Dutch schaats.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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skate m (plural skates, diminutive skateje n)

  1. inline skate

Derived terms

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Verb

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skate

  1. inflection of skaten:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative
    4. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

French

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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skate m (plural skates)

  1. a skateboard

Verb

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skate

  1. inflection of skater:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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German

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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skate

  1. inflection of skaten:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Latvian

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Etymology

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From skat(īt) (“to see, look”) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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skate f (5th declension)

  1. display, exhibition, show (a planned event with the goal of showing, demonstrating something to the public; syn. izstāde)
    modes skate ― fashion show
    tēlotājas mākslas skate ― fine art show
    zemkopības tehnikas skate ― agriculture machinery show
    mākslinieciskās pašdarbības skate ― amateur performance show
  2. inspection, survey, review (syn. apskate)
    tarifikācijas skate ― classification, ranking review
    iziet skati ― to pass the scrutiny, test, inspection

Declension

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Declension of skate (5th)
singular
(vienskaitlis) 		plural
(daudzskaitlis)
nominative skate skates
genitive skates skašu
dative skatei skatēm
accusative skati skates
instrumental skati skatēm
locative skatē skatēs
vocative skate skates

Synonyms

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse skata.

Noun

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skate m (definite singular skaten, indefinite plural skater, definite plural skatene)

  1. a skate (a fish)
  2. a dried tree without branches

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse skata.

Noun

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skate f (definite singular skata, indefinite plural skater, definite plural skatene)

  1. a skate (a fish)

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Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English skate.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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skate m (plural skates)

  1. skateboard (small platform on wheels)

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English skate.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈskeit/ [ˈskei̯t̪], /esˈkeit/ [esˈkei̯t̪]
  • Rhymes: -eit

Noun

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skate m (plural skates)

  1. skating, skateboarding

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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