skate
verb/skeɪt/
/skeɪt/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they skate | /skeɪt/ /skeɪt/ |
| he / she / it skates | /skeɪts/ /skeɪts/ |
| past simple skated | /ˈskeɪtɪd/ /ˈskeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle skated | /ˈskeɪtɪd/ /ˈskeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form skating | /ˈskeɪtɪŋ/ /ˈskeɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to move on skates (usually referring to ice skating, if no other information is given)
- Can you skate?
- It was so cold that we were able to go skating on the lake.
- Several people were skating on the frozen pond.
- skate something He skated an exciting programme at the American Championships.
- [intransitive] to ride on a skateboard
Word Originverb mid 17th cent. (originally as the plural scates): from Dutch schaats (singular but interpreted as plural), from Old French eschasse ‘stilt’.
Idioms
See skate in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe skating/walking on thin ice
- to be taking a risk
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