skating
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskeɪtɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ
Verb
skating
- present participle of skate
Noun
skating (usually uncountable, plural skatings)
- The action of moving along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Prudence”, in Essays: First Series:
- In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
- 1854, Charles Manby Smith, The working-man's way in the world, page 283:
- My merry Christmas and first matrimonial plum-pudding, which I had a hand in compounding — the sprig of mistletoe which I bought for home-consumption, the walks in the parks and the skatings on the Serpentine during the two days' holiday […]
- 2019, Grace Livingston Hill, Aunt Crete's Emancipation
- It was as if she had that morning been transferred back over forty years to her youth again, and was having the good times that she had longed for, such as other girls had—the swings, and the rides, and the skatings, and bicyclings.
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- (uncountable) The sport of moving along a surface using skates.
- (skiing, uncountable) A method of propulsion, where one moves similar to how a skater propels themselves. A technique in skiing, where a ski is planted diagonally, to push off of, and one slides forward on the ski facing straight forward, and then repeats the process with the swapping of the feet's actions.
Coordinate terms
(skiing):
- striding
- double poling
Derived terms
terms derived from skating (noun)
- figure skating
- free skating
- ice skating
- park skating
- roller skating
- skating on thin ice
- skating rink
- ski skating
- speed skating
- street skating
Translations
action or sport
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Anagrams
- Gitksan, skin tag, skin-tag, skintag, staking, takings, tasking
French
Noun
skating m (plural skatings)
- (skiing) skating
Further reading
- “skating”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Etymology
From English skating or French skating.
Noun
skating n (plural skatinguri)
- skating
Declension
Declension of skating
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) skating | skatingul | (niște) skatinguri | skatingurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) skating | skatingului | (unor) skatinguri | skatingurilor |
vocative | skatingule | skatingurilor |