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skater

[ skey-ter ]

noun

  1. a person who skates. skate.


ˈskater

/ ˈskeɪtə /

noun

  1. a person who skates
  2. same as skateboarder See skateboarder
  3. informal.
    a young person who typically wears baggy clothes and spends a lot of time skateboarding


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Word History and Origins

Origin of skater1

First recorded in 1690–1700; skate 1 + -er 1

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Example Sentences

I think it was truly like the 10,000 hours that helped me to be a great skater, but I think, right off the bat, I loved it immediately.

From Ozy

He also talks about which teams got better or worse over the offseason, including how the defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning are dealing with the loss of their best skater.

A handful of events were canceled, but the early days of the pandemic largely felt like a bullet dodged for the skiers, skaters and snowboarders training for the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.

Daniel Sprong is making his caseSprong, 23, joined the Capitals’ main group of skaters Saturday for the first time — pushing offseason acquisition Conor Sheary to the second group — and skated on the third line with Lars Eller and Richard Panik.

Until that point, the 17-year-old professional speed skater had been training non-stop.

From Quartz

Maybe the judges scored the Russian skater generously because they just wanted to be done with it all and get out of Sochi alive.

Nineteen-year-old figure skater Jason Brown has been rocking a signature hairstyle that even has its own Twitter account.

But I could not bear the thought of skater Takahashi being seen by the world as a co-conspirator in our crime.

Raised from nothing, Harding aspired to greatness: she wanted to be the best female figure skater in the world.

Hipster skater style from Zoe Jordan to kick off day two of LFW.

Eve looked very pretty in her skating rig, and she was a splendid skater, too.

The swallow is a happy bird and skims and dances in the air like a fancy skater on the ice.

And when the skater visits the ice again, back he will come and resume the wheeling at intervals.

A beginner learning to skate, for example, exerts himself fully as much as the accomplished skater.

One of the gentlemen of the village offered a "badge of honor" to the swiftest skater on the pond—the one who could win the race.

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