noun

1. also ice skate
   1. a bladelike metal runner mounted in a frame having clamps and straps for fastening it to the sole of a shoe and used for gliding on ice
   2. a shoe with such a runner permanently attached
2. a similar frame or shoe with a pair of small wheels near the toe and another pair at the heel, for gliding on a hardwood floor, sidewalk, etc.
   also roller skate
3. in-line skate
4. the act or a period of skating

Etymology: taken as sing. of earlier skates < Du schaats, a skate, stilt < NormFr escache < OFr eschace, stilt, crutch < Frank *skatja, stilt

intransitive verb skated skat′ed, skating skat′·ing