Noun: skate
| Singular | skate |
| Plural | skates; skate |
Sample Sentences
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They open or shut, according as the foot to which the skate is attached moves downwards or upwards and the swimmer advances by the alternate motion of his limbs, as in mounting a stair, keeping the body and head inclined a little forward, as in skating. [1847, editorial staff, “Swimming Skate”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 68:]
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There's time for a quick skate before dinner.
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The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.
Nouns inflected like skate
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”). See: Dutch Nouns '
schaats', French Nouns '
échasse', English Nouns '
scatch'.
Verbs referencing "skate"
Dutch Nouns
skate, Danish Nouns
skøjte, Icelandic Nouns
skata, Swedish Nouns
skata, Finnish Nouns
skeitti, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
skøyte, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
skøyte, German Nouns
Skate.