Definitions for skates

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skates skate

Spelling: [skeyt]

IPA: /skeɪt/

Skates is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in skates (aeksst).

Definitions for skates

noun

1. ice skate (def 1).
2. roller skate.
3. the blade of an ice skate.
4. a skid on a lifeboat to facilitate launching from a listing ship.
5. any of several rays of the genus Raja, usually having a pointed snout, as R. binoculata (big skate) inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of the U.S., growing to a length of 8 feet (2.4 meters).
6. a person; fellow:
7. a contemptible person.
8. an inferior, decrepit horse; nag.

Idioms

1. get / put one's skates on, British Informal. to make haste.
2. skate on thin ice, to be or place oneself in a risky or delicate situation:

verb (used with object)

1. to slide (a flat) across the floor of a stage.

verb (used without object)

1. to glide or propel oneself over ice, the ground, etc., on skates.
2. to glide or slide smoothly along.
3. Slang. to shirk one's duty; loaf.
4. (of the tone arm on a record player) to swing toward the spindle while a record is playing.

Origin of skates

1640-50; orig. plural scates Dutch schaats (singular) skate, Middle Dutch schaetse stilt (compare Medieval Latin scatia)

Examples for skates

You can watch Takahashi skate to the same music in the clip below.

Yeah, he wanted to skate and had never skated before, so I taught him when he was 58.

When in town, they skate or walk or visit the riding-school: all good.

After this Tobias advanced, embraced his father, and then rubbed his eyes with the skate's liver.

We'd skate and walk over the Mile Road and skate and walk over the railroad and skate some more.

"You must throw that skate away," said Florent as he came up.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.

My sister Edna took one skate and I took the other, and I was so small that I put I it on right over my shoe.

I kissed the skate key four times a day just to have something to do.

She learned to skate in three lessons,—and how she did it too!