Usually means: Ride on board with wheels.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word skate:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. skate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. skate: Merriam-Webster
  3. skate, skate, skate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. skate, skate, skate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. skate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. skate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Skate, skate: Wordnik
  8. skate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. skate: Wiktionary
  10. skate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. skate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. skate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. skate: Dictionary.com
  14. skate (1), skate (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. skate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Skate (dinghy), Skate (fish), Skate (musician), Skate (rapper), Skate (video game), Skate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Skate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. skate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. skate: Rhymezone
  20. skate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. skate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. skate: FreeDictionary.org
  23. skate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. skate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. skate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Skate (fish), skate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. skate: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. skate, skate, skate, skate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. skate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  The act of skateboarding
noun:  The act of roller skating or ice skating
noun:  (rail transport, Philippines, chiefly Bicol) A makeshift handcar.
verb:  To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
verb:  To skateboard.
verb:  (skiing) To use the skating technique.
verb:  (slang) To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
verb:  To move smoothly and easily.
adjective:  (skiing) Pertaining to the technique of skating.
noun:  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.
noun:  A worn-out horse.
noun:  A mean or contemptible person.
noun:  (fandom slang) The ship of characters James "Sawyer" Ford and Kate Austen from the television series Lost.
noun:  Abbreviation of ice skate. [A light boot, fitted with a blade, used for ice skating.]
noun:  Abbreviation of roller skate. [A boot having small wheels or casters attached to its sole; used for roller skating.]

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