skate

• IPA^(key): /skeɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt
• Hyphenation: skate

• skait (archaic)

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 *skakkjā (“stilt”, literally “thing that moves”), related to *skakan (“to shake, swing”).

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. Abbreviation of ice skate.
3. Abbreviation of roller skate.
4. The act of skateboarding

   There's time for a quick skate before dinner.

5. 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.
4. (slang) To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.

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, Skeat, 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

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skate m (plural skates)

1. a skateboard

skate

1. inflection of skater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “skate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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skate

1. inflection of skaten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

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 (Brazilian, uncommon)

Unadapted borrowing from English skate.

skate m (plural skates)

1. skateboard (small platform on wheels)

Unadapted borrowing from English skate.

• IPA^(key): /esˈkeit/ [esˈkei̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -eit

skate m (plural skates)

1. skating, skateboarding

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.