# skate
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /skeɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪt
* Hyphenation: skate

### Alternative forms

* skait (archaic)

### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Noun

skate (plural skates)
* 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.
* Abbreviation of ice skate.
* Abbreviation of roller skate.
* The act of skateboarding
    There's time for a quick skate before dinner.
* The act of roller skating or ice skating
    The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.
* (rail transport, Philippines, chiefly Bicol) A makeshift handcar.

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#### Verb

skate (third-person singular simple present skates, present participle skating, simple past and past participle skated)
* To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
* To skateboard.
* (skiing) To use the skating technique.
* (slang) To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
* To move smoothly and easily.
** March 26 2023, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian‎:Addressing a short pass from Henderson, he always felt too smart for Mykola Matviyenko, taking a step to lure him one way; dropping his shoulder and skating in the other direction, further inside.

##### Derived terms

* bobskate
* clap skate
* figure skate
* flapper skate
* get one's skates on
* hockey skate
* ice-skate
* in-line skate
* parlour skate
* quad skate
* rink skate
* roller-skate
* skate-around
* skate around
* skateboard
* skate by
* skate key
* skate on
* skate one's lane
* skate on thin ice
* skate over
* skatepark
* skate punk
* skater
* skate skiing

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#### Adjective

skate (not comparable)
* (skiing) Pertaining to the technique of skating.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English skat, scate (also schat), from Old Norse skata (“skate”). Cognate with Icelandic skata (“skate, ray”), Norwegian skate (“skate”).

#### Noun

skate (plural skates or skate)
* 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.
** 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:The fishermen crowding in the cafés were also waiting for the end of the storm, when the fish, reassured, would rise to the surface after the bait. Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions. Day was now breaking.
** 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times‎:Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

##### Derived terms

* barndoor skate
* bottlenose skate
* ghost skate
* mavis skate
* mud skate

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Unknown but probably related to skite(shit)

#### Noun

skate (plural skates)
* A worn-out horse.
* A mean or contemptible person.

##### Derived terms

* cheapskate
* labor skate

### Further reading

* “skate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* Keast, Keats, Skeat, Stake, kates, ketas, stake, steak, takes, teaks

## Basque
### Etymology

From English skate.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /es̺kei̯t/ [es̺.kei̯t̪]
* Rhymes: -es̺kei̯t, -ei̯t

### Noun

skate inan
* skateboard
* skateboarding

#### Related terms

* skater (“skateboarder”)

### Further reading

* “skate”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

## Dutch
### Etymology

From English skate, back-formed from Dutch schaats.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

skate m (plural skates, diminutive skateje n)
* inline skate

#### Derived terms

* skaten

### Verb

skate
* inflection of skaten:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative
** (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /sket/

### Noun

skate m (plural skates)
* a skateboard

### Verb

skate
* inflection of skater:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “skate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

skate
* inflection of skaten:
** first-person singular present
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I
** singular imperative

## Latvian
### Etymology

From skat(īt) (“to see, look”) +‎ -e.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [skatɛ]
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### Noun

skate f (5th declension)
* display, exhibition, show (a planned event with the goal of showing, demonstrating something to the public; syn. izstāde)
    modes skate ― fashion show
    tēlotājas mākslas skate ― fine art show
    zemkopības tehnikas skate ― agriculture machinery show
    mākslinieciskās pašdarbības skate ― amateur performance show
* inspection, survey, review (syn. apskate)
    tarifikācijas skate ― classification, ranking review
    iziet skati ― to pass the scrutiny, test, inspection

#### Synonyms

* apskate
* izstāde

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse skata.

### Noun

skate m (definite singular skaten, indefinite plural skater, definite plural skatene)
* a skate (a fish)
* a dried tree without branches

### References

* “skate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse skata.

### Noun

skate f (definite singular skata, indefinite plural skater, definite plural skatene)
* a skate (a fish)

### References

* “skate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* esqueite (Brazil, uncommon)

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English skate.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /(i)sˈkej.t͡ʃi/ [(i)sˈkeɪ̯.t͡ʃi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /(i)sˈkej.t͡ʃi/ [(i)sˈkeɪ̯.t͡ʃi]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /(i)ʃˈkej.t͡ʃi/ [(i)ʃˈkeɪ̯.t͡ʃi]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /(i)sˈkej.te/ [(i)sˈkeɪ̯.te]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈskɐj.tɨ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈskɐj.tɨ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈskej.tɨ/
** (Central Portugal) IPA: /ˈskej.tɨ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈske.tɨ/

### Noun

skate m (plural skates)
* skateboard (small platform on wheels)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English skate.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /esˈkeit/ [esˈkei̯t̪]
* Rhymes: -eit

### Noun

skate m (plural skates)
* skating, skateboarding

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.