Definition of "skate"

skate¹

/skeɪt/

noun
plural skates
1. 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.
2. Abbreviation of ice skate.
3. Abbreviation of roller skate.
4. The act of skateboarding
5. The act of roller skating or ice skating
verb
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.
  Quotations
  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.
  March 26 2023, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian‎
adjective
not comparable
1. (skiing) Pertaining to the technique of skating.

skate²

/skeɪt/

noun
plural skates or skate
1. 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.
  Quotations
  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.
  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], page 3

skate³

/skeɪt/

noun
plural skates
1. A worn-out horse.
2. A mean or contemptible person.