skate

skate definitions

• To move smoothly and easily. 

• To use the skating technique. 

• To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty. 

• To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates. 

• To skateboard. 

• Pertaining to the technique of skating. 

• The act of roller skating or ice skating 

• A worn-out horse. 

• A mean or contemptible person. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• The act of skateboarding