skate

«skate» in Mova's school dictionary: to glide on ice with ice skates or on the ground with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (skate, skates, skated, skating); noun (a skate, skates)

meaning for a pupil

1) To skate means to glide on ice with ice skates or on the ground with roller skates or a skateboard. tree →

2) A skate is a boot with a blade or wheels on the bottom. tree →

3) A skate is also a flat sea fish, a bit like a ray. tree →

4) Skate can also be an insulting word for a poor, worn-out horse. tree →

sense in the lessons

In sports and play, children ice skate at rinks and on frozen lakes, and roller skate or skateboard in parks. In safety lessons, they wear a helmet, knee and elbow pads, and they never skate on ice unless an adult has checked it is thick and safe. Phrases: ice skating, roller skating, skate park, skateboard, a pair of skates.

examples

• We went ice skating at the rink on Saturday. tree →
• She can skate backwards! tree →
• I got new roller skates for my birthday. tree →
• Always wear a helmet when you skate. tree →
• Never skate on a frozen pond unless an adult says it's safe. tree →
• He skated round the park on his skateboard. tree →
• My skates are too small now. tree →
• A skate is a flat fish that lives on the sea floor. tree →
• Imagine the feelings of Sunol if a car-horse called her a “skate,” and you can imagine how the Australian horse felt. tree →

note

Regular verb: skated, skating (drop the e). Skates usually come in pairs: «a pair of skates». A skater is a person who skates. Thin ice can break; falling through ice in cold water is very dangerous.

In the corpora

• A helmet greatly lowers the chance of a serious head injury when cycling, skating or scootering.
• You skate only on ice checked by adults or on a marked rink; the ice must be at least 10 cm thick.
• Skateboards and roller skates are hard to stop quickly, so they are used in parks and skate parks, not on busy streets.
• Then his mates knocked and he went to the skate park.
• When the cast came off he told his best mate, who laughed for ages and then taught him to skate for real.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «skate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.