Definition of "skate over" [skate over]

• To avoid adressing or tackling. (verb)
• To convincingly defeat. (verb)

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• "Ye see, "says he, shaking his pawky old head," the day ye find a priest sittin 'in the court at Trinity is a day ye'll be able to skate over Dublin Bay from Bray to Balbriggan - an' as for seein 'St Stephen's Green from the court, well, I doubt if even ould Faylen could see that far from heaven, where he's been this five-and-thirty years, God rest his soul."
• "This was the school that Zhuk had built, where a “small, stupid” girl might skate over to the head coach and be greeted by a slap."