skating
/ˈskeɪtɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed."
- "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[…]"
- "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."
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Sports.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
figure skating
free skating
ice skating
in-line skating
limbo skating
park skating
roller skating
skating on thin ice