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Definition of "skater" [skat•er]

  • One who skates, as on ice. (noun)
  • One who skateboards. (noun)
  • See water strider. (noun)

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 "skater" in a sentence
  • "Drop the term skater when describing someone and you might invoke a variety of reactions."
  • "Every skater is wearing skates made out of cow, Weir said."
  • "If an ice-skater is spinning slowly with their arms spread out, and then they pull their arms in towards them, they will begin to spin much faster … this time, informally, we could say that slower ‘wide spinning’ has been transformed into faster ‘narrow spinning’."