Synonyms for skate

Grammar : Verb

Spell : skeyt

Phonetic Transcription : skeɪt

Définition of skate

Origin : "type of flat, cartilaginous fish, a kind of ray," mid-14c., from a Scandinavian source, cf. Old Norse skata "skate," Danish skade, Faeroese skøta, of unknown origin.

verb slide

Example sentences :

After this Tobias advanced, embraced his father, and then rubbed his eyes with the skate's liver.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

When in town, they skate or walk or visit the riding-school: all good.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various

"You must throw that skate away," said Florent as he came up.
Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.
Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

She learned to skate in three lessons,—and how she did it too!
Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever

If there were no fools to skate on the Serpentine, there had been no Humane Society.
Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever

You can skate on ice, but not on a sidewalk, with ice skates.
Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne

"I don't know much about how they can skate," was the reply.
Extract from : « The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island » by Edward Stratemeyer

"If your father says not to skate there that ought to go with you," cut in Dick.
Extract from : « Steve and the Steam Engine » by Sara Ware Bassett

In the meantime the sixth boy had lost a skate and dropped out.
Extract from : « The Rover Boys on the Farm » by Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)

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