26984 words

skates

4 definitions • 5 examples
1
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:

Examples:

a pair of ice skates
a pair of roller skates
2
a large, flat sea fish that can be eaten as food
3
to move, or make a particular movement on a surface, using skates:

Examples:

The ice on the river is thick enough to skate on/across/over.
Let's go skating tomorrow.
4
a special shoe or boot with wheels for moving quickly over a smooth surface, or an ice skate (= shoe with a metal blade for sliding over ice):

Examples:

I caught my skates in a rut and fell.

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