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# skate

«skate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to glide on ice with ice skates or on the ground with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (skate, skates, skated, skating); noun (a skate, skates)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To skate means to glide on ice with ice skates or on the ground with roller skates or a skateboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/#m1)

2) A skate is a boot with a blade or wheels on the bottom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/#m2)

3) A skate is also a flat sea fish, a bit like a ray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/#m3)

4) Skate can also be an insulting word for a poor, worn-out horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In sports and play, children ice skate at rinks and on frozen lakes, and roller skate or skateboard in parks. In safety lessons, they wear a helmet, knee and elbow pads, and they never skate on ice unless an adult has checked it is thick and safe. Phrases: ice skating, roller skating, skate park, skateboard, a pair of skates.

### examples

- We went ice skating at the rink on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/#x1)
- She can skate backwards! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/#x2)
- I got new roller skates for my birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/#x3)
- Always wear a helmet when you skate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/#x4)
- Never skate on a frozen pond unless an adult says it's safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/#x5)
- He skated round the park on his skateboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/#x6)
- My skates are too small now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/#x7)
- A skate is a flat fish that lives on the sea floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/#x8)
- Imagine the feelings of Sunol if a car-horse called her a “skate,” and you can imagine how the Australian horse felt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/#x9)

### note

Regular verb: skated, skating (drop the e). Skates usually come in pairs: «a pair of skates». A skater is a person who skates. Thin ice can break; falling through ice in cold water is very dangerous.

### In the corpora

- [A helmet greatly lowers the chance of a serious head injury when cycling, skating or scootering.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/20/)
- [You skate only on ice checked by adults or on a marked rink; the ice must be at least 10 cm thick.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing/11/)
- [Skateboards and roller skates are hard to stop quickly, so they are used in parks and skate parks, not on busy streets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks/13/)
- [Then his mates knocked and he went to the skate park.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat/1/)
- [When the cast came off he told his best mate, who laughed for ages and then taught him to skate for real.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «skate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.