SKATE
What does "SKATE" mean?
To glide over ice or a surface on skates or a wheeled board.
Meanings
- To move along on ice skates or roller skates. They skated across the frozen pond at dusk.
- To ride a skateboard. He skates the rails behind the old library. informal
- To pass through something easily, or to avoid a difficulty. She skated through the exam without studying. figurative
- A boot fitted with a blade or wheels for gliding. He laced up his skates at the edge of the rink.
- A cartilaginous flatfish related to the rays, with broad winglike fins. The fishmonger laid a fresh skate on the ice.
Did you know?
- The black leathery 'mermaid's purses' beachcombers find are the empty egg cases of skates and their shark relatives.
Word origin
The footwear sense comes from Dutch 'schaats' (borrowed singular, reanalyzed as plural 'skates'); the fish sense is a separate word from Old Norse 'skata'.
Remember it
SKATE = SK + ATE; picture a blade that 'ate' the ice as it glides, carving a trail behind it.
A little poem
Two blades write one line
across the lake's black mirror-
spring will read it back.
haiku
Wordplay
- I asked the fishmonger and the figure skater the same question, and somehow both said 'skate' was their best move.
What it teaches
Glide where you can, but know the ice is only as kind as the season holding it.
Quick facts
What does SKATE mean?
To glide over ice or a surface on skates or a wheeled board.
Is SKATE a valid word?
Yes — SKATE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SKATE?
SKATE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SKATE come from?
The footwear sense comes from Dutch 'schaats' (borrowed singular, reanalyzed as plural 'skates'); the fish sense is a separate word from Old Norse 'skata'.
What can SKATE teach us?
Glide where you can, but know the ice is only as kind as the season holding it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.