skate

• IPA^(key): /skeɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt
• Hyphenation: skate

Back-formation from Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch schāetse, from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”) (compare French échasse and English scatch), from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *skakkja (“stilt”).

skate (plural skates)

1. A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
2. abbreviated form of ice skate or roller skate
3. The act of skateboarding

   There's time for a quick skate before dinner.

4. The act of roller skating or ice skating

   The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.

skate (third-person singular simple present skates, present participle skating, simple past and past participle skated)

1. To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
2. To skateboard
3. (skiing) To use the skating technique.

skate (not comparable)

1. (skiing) Pertaining to the technique of skating.

A drawing of a cuckoo skate (Leucoraja naevus)

From Middle English skat, scate (also schat), from Old Norse skata (“skate”). Cognate with Icelandic skata (“skate, ray”), Norwegian skate (“skate”).

skate (plural skates)

1. A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body.

Unknown.

skate (plural skates)

1. A worn-out horse.
2. A mean or contemptible person.

• cheapskate
• labor skate

• skate at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Keast, Keats, Stake, kates, ketas, stake, steak, takes, teaks

From English skate, back-formed from Dutch schaats.

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skate m (plural skates, diminutive skateje n)

1. inline skate

• skaten

skate

1. first-person singular present indicative of skaten
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of skaten
3. imperative of skaten

skate m (plural skates)

1. a skateboard

skate

1. first-person singular present indicative of skater
2. third-person singular present indicative of skater
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of skater
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of skater
5. second-person singular imperative of skater

• “skate” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

skate

1. First-person singular present of skaten.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of skaten.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of skaten.
4. Imperative singular of skaten.

From skat(īt) (“to see, look”) +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): [skatɛ]

skate f (5th declension)

1. display, exhibition, show (a planned event with the goal of showing, demonstrating something to the public; syn. izstāde)

   modes skate ― fashion show

   tēlotājas mākslas skate ― fine art show

   zemkopības tehnikas skate ― agriculture machinery show

   mākslinieciskās pašdarbības skate ― amateur performance show

2. inspection, survey, review (syn. apskate)

   tarifikācijas skate ― classification, ranking review

   iziet skati ― to pass the scrutiny, test, inspection

• apskate
• izstāde

From Old Norse skata

skate m (definite singular skaten, indefinite plural skater, definite plural skatene)

1. a skate (a fish)
2. a dried tree without branches

• “skate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse skata

skate f (definite singular skata, indefinite plural skater, definite plural skatene)

1. a skate (a fish)

• “skate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• esqueite (uncommon)

Borrowed from English skate.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈskejt͡ʃ/

skate m (plural skates)

1. skateboard (small platform on wheels)

skate m (plural skates)

1. skating, skateboarding