skatenoun
uk/skeɪt/us/skeɪt/skate noun (BOOT)
A2 [ C ] plural skates a special boot with a thin metal bar attached to the bottom that you wear to move quickly on ice, or a boot with four small wheels fixed to the bottom so that you can move over a hard surface:
a pair of ice skates
a pair of roller skates
More examples
- My skates were a bit small.
- You can hire skates at the rink.
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Skates & skateboards
- half pipe
- ice skate
- inline
- inline skate
- inline skating
- roller skate
- Rollerblade
- rollerblade
- scooter
- Segway
- skateboard
- skateboarding
- skatepark
skate noun (FISH)
[ C or U ] plural skate or skates a large, flat sea fish that can be eaten as food
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Sea fish
- anchovy
- barracuda
- bream
- cod
- coley
- flying fish
- groper
- haddock
- hake
- halibut
- pollack
- ray
- remora
- salmon
- salmon trout
- sturgeon
- swordfish
- trout
- tuna
- turbot
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Idiom(s)
get/put your skates on
skateverb [ I + adv/prep, T ]
uk/skeɪt/us/skeɪt/B1 to move, or make a particular movement on a surface, using skates:
The ice on the river is thick enough to skate on/across/over.
Let's go skating tomorrow.
More examples
- When the lake freezes over , we can go skating on it.
- She skated over to where I was standing.
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Winter Sports
- après-ski
- beginners' slope
- biathlon
- bunny slope
- chairlift
- curling
- ice rink
- off-piste
- skater
- skating
- ski
- ski jump
- sled
- sledge
- sleigh
- snowboarding
- snowshoe
- speed skating
- toboggan
- winter sports
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Idiom(s)
be skating on thin ice
Phrasal verb(s)
skate over/around sth