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Definition of "skate" []

  • An ice skate. (noun)
  • A roller skate. (noun)
  • A skateboard. (noun)
  • The act or a period of skating or skateboarding. (noun)
  • To glide or move along on or as if on skates. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "skate" in a sentence
  • "November 20th, 2009 2: 50 pm ET it seems to me if you are black and a member of congress. "you will be geared for failure" set up for the okey doke ..... while the fbi let folks like palin skate and paul bremmer and the vanishing 9 billion dollars go up in smoke w/o a word. and EVERYONE is mumb about."
  • "There are two kinds of people that really symbolize the values of determination and perfectionism to me: kids in skate board parks and graffiti artists."
  • "On the replay you can see his skate is in the crease."