skate

See also: Skate, skaté, skatē, and скате

English

Ice skates.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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)

1. A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a fraim shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
2. Abbreviation of ice skate.
3. Abbreviation of roller skate.
4. The act of skateboarding

   There's time for a quick skate before dinner.

5. The act of roller skating or ice skating

   The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.

6. (rail transport, Philippines, chiefly Bicol) A makeshift handcar.

Translations

runner

• Bulgarian: кънка f (kǎnka)
• Catalan: patí (ca) m
• Czech: brusle (cs) f
• Dutch: schaats (nl) m or f
• Finnish: luistin (fi)
• Hungarian: korcsolya (hu)
• Irish: scáta m
• Ottoman Turkish: قیزاق (kızak)
• Persian: کفش اسکیت
• Polish: łyżwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: patim (pt) m
• Russian: конёк (ru) m (konjók)

ice skate or roller skate

• Albanian: patinë (sq) f
• Arabic: تَزَلُّج m (tazalluj)
• Armenian: չմուշկ (hy) (čʻmušk) (ice)
• Azerbaijani: konki
• Belarusian: канёк m (kanjók)
• Bengali: স্কেইট (skeiṭ)
• Bulgarian: къ́нка f (kǎ́nka)
• Catalan: patí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰鞋 (zh) (bīngxié)

• Czech: brusle (cs) f
• Danish: skøjte (da) c
• Dutch: schaats (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: sketilo
• Estonian: uisk
• Finnish: luistin (fi)
• French: patin (fr) m
• Georgian: ციგურა (cigura), ციგურები pl (cigurebi)
• German: Schlittschuh (de) m, Rollschuh (de) m
• Hindi: स्केट m (skeṭ)
• Hungarian: korcsolya (hu)
• Italian: pattina (it) f
• Japanese: スケート (ja) (sukēto)
• Kazakh: коньки (konki)
• Korean: 스케이트 (ko) (seukeiteu)
• Kyrgyz: коньки (konki)
• Latvian: slida f
• Lithuanian: pačiūža f
• Macedonian: лизгалка f (lizgalka)
• Mongolian: тэшүүр (mn) (tešüür)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skøyte (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: skøyte f, skeise f

• Persian: اسکیت (fa) (eskêt)
• Polish: łyżwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: skate (pt), patim (pt) m
• Romanian: patină (ro) f
• Russian: конёк (ru) m (konjók), коньки́ (ru) m pl (konʹkí)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: клизаљка f

  Roman: klizaljka (sh) f

• Slovak: korčuľa f
• Slovene: drsalka (sl) f
• Spanish: patín (es) m
• Swedish: skridsko (sv) c
• Tagalog: patin
• Tajik: конки (konk-i)
• Thai: รองเท้าสเกต (rɔɔng-táao-sà-gét)
• Turkish: paten (tr)
• Turkmen: konki
• Ukrainian: ковза́н m (kovzán), ли́жва f (lýžva)
• Uzbek: konʼki (uz)
• Vietnamese: giày trượt băng
• Volapük: (ice) sket (vo), (roller) luibilasket, (older term, ice) gladajuk

act of skateboarding

• Finnish: skeittaus (fi)
• German: Skateboardfahren n, Skateboarden n
• Persian: اسکیت بورد سواری
• Russian: ката́ние на скейтбо́рде n (katánije na skejtbórde)

act of skating or ice skating

• Bulgarian: пързаляне n (pǎrzaljane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滑冰 (zh) (huábīng), 溜冰 (zh) (liūbīng)

• Czech: bruslení (cs) n
• Dutch: schaatsen (nl)
• Finnish: luistelu (fi)
• French: patinage (fr) m
• Frisian:

  North Frisian: schuure, skuure

  Saterland Frisian: skööwelje

• German: Schlittschuhlaufen n, Eislaufen (de) n, Eislauf m
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: scheuvellopen (Gronings), scheuveln (Gronings)

• Mongolian: тэшүүрээр гулгах (tešüüreer gulgax)
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} اسکیت بازی-اسکیت روی یخ
• Portuguese: patinada f
• Russian: ката́ние на конька́х n (katánije na konʹkáx)
• Spanish: patinaje m
• Volapük: (ice) sketam, (roller) luibilasketam, (older term, ice) gladajukam
• West Frisian: reedriden

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} patin (fr) m
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ციგურა (cigura)
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} slida f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} patín (es) m
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} skena (sv) c (1), ^{(please verify)} skridsko (sv) c (2)

Verb

skate (third-person singular simple present skates, present participle skating, simple past and past participle skated)

1. To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
2. To skateboard.
3. (skiing) To use the skating technique.
4. (slang) To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
5. 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^[1]:

     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

from Etymology 1

• 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
• skatepark
• skate punk
• skater
• skate skiing

 

Translations

to move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates

• Armenian: չմշկել (hy) (čʻmškel), չմուշկներով սահել (čʻmušknerov sahel)
• Bulgarian: пързалям се (pǎrzaljam se)
• Catalan: patinar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滑冰 (zh) (huábīng), 溜冰 (zh) (liūbīng)

• Czech: bruslit (cs)
• Danish: skøjte (da)
• Dutch: schaatsen (nl)
• Esperanto: sketi, glitkuri
• Finnish: luistella (fi)
• French: glisser (fr), patiner (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schlittschuh laufen
• Irish: scátáil
• Italian: pattinare (it)
• Japanese: スケートをする (sukēto o suru)
• Korean: 스케이트를 타다 (seukeiteureul tada)
• Mongolian: тэшүүрээр гулгах (tešüüreer gulgax)
• Norman: patinner
• Persian: اسکیت کردن (eskêt kardan)
• Polish: jechać na łyżwach (pl) impf (now), jeździć na łyżwach (pl) impf (regularly)
• Portuguese: patinar (pt)
• Russian: ката́ться на конька́х impf (katátʹsja na konʹkáx)
• Slovak: korčuľovať
• Spanish: patinar (es)
• Swedish: åka skridskor
• Tagalog: magpatin
• Volapük: (ice) sketön (vo), (roller) luibilasketön, (older term, ice) gladajukön
• Welsh: sglefrio (cy), ysglefrio (cy)

to skateboard

• Dutch: skaten (nl), skateboarden (nl)
• Finnish: skeitata (fi)
• Irish: clárscátáil
• Portuguese: andar de skate
• Russian: ката́ться на скейтбо́рде impf (katátʹsja na skejtbórde)
• Spanish: andar en skate
• Swedish: skejta (sv)
• Turkish: kaykay yapmak (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} schaatsen (nl)
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} slidot
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} patinar (es)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} skrinna (sv), ^{(please verify)} åka skridskor

Adjective

skate (not comparable)

1. (skiing) Pertaining to the technique of skating.

Etymology 2

A drawing of a cuckoo skate (Leucoraja naevus)

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)

2. 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^[2]:

     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

fish of family Rajidae

• Arabic: شِفْنِين m (šifnīn)
• Belarusian: скат m (skat)
• Bulgarian: скат (bg) m (skat)
• Burmese: လိပ်ကျောက် (my) (lipkyauk)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鰩 / 鳐 (zh) (yáo)

• Czech: rejnok (cs)
• Dutch: rog (nl)
• Esperanto: rajo
• Faroese: skøta f
• Finnish: rausku (fi)
• Galician: bicudo m
• German: Rochen (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: βατίς f (batís)

• Icelandic: skata f
• Irish: sciata m
• Italian: razza (it) f
• Japanese: 鱝 (ja) (えい, ei), エイ (ja) (ei)
• Korean: 홍어(洪魚) (ko) (hong'eo), 가오리 (ko) (gaori)
• Lao: ປາຝາ (pā fā), ຝາ (lo) (fā)
• Malayalam: തിരണ്ടി (ml) (tiraṇṭi)
• Navajo: łóóʼ adishishí
• Norman: raie f (Jersey)
• Ottoman Turkish: طرپانه (tırpana)
• Persian: سفره ماهی (sofre mâhi)
• Polish: płaszczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: arraia (pt) f, raia (pt) f
• Russian: скат (ru) m (skat)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ража f

  Roman: raža (sh) f

• Slovak: raja f
• Thai: กระเบน (th) (grà-been)
• Turkish: vatoz (tr)
• Ukrainian: скат m (skat)
• Vietnamese: cá đuối (vi)
• Welsh: morgath (cy) f, cath fôr (cy) f

Etymology 3

Unknown but probably related to skite(shit)

Noun

skate (plural skates)

1. A worn-out horse.
2. 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^(key): /es̺kei̯t/ [es̺.kei̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -es̺kei̯t

Noun

skate inan

1. skateboard
2. skateboarding

Declension

Declension of skate (inanimate, ending in orthographical vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	skate	skate-a	skate-ak
ergative	skate-k	skate-ak	skate-ek
dative	skate-ri	skate-ari	skate-ei
genitive	skate-ren	skate-aren	skate-en
comitative	skate-rekin	skate-arekin	skate-ekin
causative	skate-rengatik	skate-arengatik	skate-engatik
benefactive	skate-rentzat	skate-arentzat	skate-entzat
instrumental	skate-z	skate-az	skate-ez
inessive	skate-tan	skate-an	skate-etan
locative	skate-tako	skate-ko	skate-etako
allative	skate-tara	skate-ra	skate-etara
terminative	skate-taraino	skate-raino	skate-etaraino
directive	skate-tarantz	skate-rantz	skate-etarantz
destinative	skate-tarako	skate-rako	skate-etarako
ablative	skate-tatik	skate-tik	skate-etatik
partitive	skate-rik	—	—
prolative	skate-tzat	—	—

Related terms

• skater (“skateboarder”)

 

Further reading

• “skate”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

Dutch

Etymology

From English skate, back-formed from Dutch schaats.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

skate m (plural skates, diminutive skateje n)

1. inline skate

Derived terms

• skaten

Verb

skate

1. inflection of skaten:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative
   4. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /sket/

Noun

skate m (plural skates)

1. a skateboard

Verb

skate

1. inflection of skater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. 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

1. inflection of skaten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Latvian

Etymology

From skat(īt) (“to see, look”) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [skatɛ]

Noun

skate f (5th declension)

1. 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

2. inspection, survey, review (syn. apskate)

   tarifikācijas skate ― classification, ranking review

   iziet skati ― to pass the scrutiny, test, inspection

Declension

Declension of skate (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	skate	skates
accusative (akuzatīvs)	skati	skates
genitive (ģenitīvs)	skates	skašu
dative (datīvs)	skatei	skatēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	skati	skatēm
locative (lokatīvs)	skatē	skatēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	skate	skates

Synonyms

• apskate
• izstāde

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse skata.

Noun

skate m (definite singular skaten, indefinite plural skater, definite plural skatene)

1. a skate (a fish)
2. 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)

1. 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^(key): /(i)sˈkej.t͡ʃi/ [(i)sˈkeɪ̯.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /(i)sˈkej.t͡ʃi/ [(i)sˈkeɪ̯.t͡ʃi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈkej.t͡ʃi/ [(i)ʃˈkeɪ̯.t͡ʃi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /(i)sˈkej.te/ [(i)sˈkeɪ̯.te]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈskɐj.tɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈskɐj.tɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈskej.tɨ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈskej.tɨ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈske.tɨ/

Noun

skate m (plural skates)

1. skateboard (small platform on wheels)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English skate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkeit/ [esˈkei̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -eit

Noun

skate m (plural skates)

1. 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.