skater

See also: Skater

English

Alternative forms

• sk8r (slang)

Etymology

From skate ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskeɪ.tə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

skater (plural skaters)

1. A person who skates.
2. A member of skateboarding subculture, characterized by dingy and baggy clothes, and often wallet chains.
3. A skateboarder
4. (ice hockey) A player who is not a goaltender.
5. Any of numerous hemipterous insects in the family Gerridae, which run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.

Synonyms

• (in ice hockey): field player
• (insect): water strider

Derived terms

• figure skater
• ice skater
• in-line skater
• pond-skater
• skater dress
• speed skater
• water skater

 

Translations

person who skates

• Albanian: patinator m
• Arabic: مُتَزَلِّج m (mutazallij)
• Armenian: չմշկորդ (hy) (čʻmškord)
• Azerbaijani: konkisürən
• Belarusian: канькабе́жац m (kanʹkabjéžac), канькабе́жка f (kanʹkabjéžka)
• Bulgarian: кънкьо́р m (kǎnkjór), кънкьо́рка f (kǎnkjórka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溜冰者 (liūbīngzhě), 滑冰者 (huábīngzhě)

• Czech: bruslař (cs) m, bruslařka (cs) f
• Danish: skøjteløber (da) c
• Dutch: schaatser (nl) m, skater (nl) m
• Estonian: uisutaja
• Finnish: luistelija (fi)
• French: patineur (fr) m, patineuse (fr) f, skateur (fr) m, skateuse (fr) f (skateboard)
• Georgian: მოციგურავე (mocigurave)
• German: Schlittschuhläufer (de) m, Schlittschuhläuferin (de) f, Eisläufer (de) m, Eisläuferin (de) f
• Greek: παγοδρόμος (el) m (pagodrómos)
• Hungarian: korcsolyázó (hu), (ice) jégkorcsolyázó, (roller) görkorcsolyázó, (skateboard) gördeszkás
• Icelandic: skautahlaupari m
• Italian: pattinatore (it) m, pattinatrice (it) f
• Japanese: スケートをする人 (スケートをするひと , sukēto o suru hito), スケーター (ja) (sukētā)
• Kazakh: конькиші (konkişı)
• Korean: 스케이트를 타는 사람 (seukeiteu-reul taneun saram)
• Latvian: slidotājs m
• Lithuanian: čiuožėjas m
• Macedonian: лизгач m (lizgač), лизгачка f (lizgačka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skøyteløper m

• Persian: اسکیت‌سوار (fa) (eskeyt-savâr), اسکیت‌باز (eskeyt-bâz)
• Polish: łyżwiarz (pl) m, łyżwiarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: patinador (pt) m
• Romanian: patinator (ro) m, patinatoare (ro) f
• Russian: конькобе́жец (ru) m (konʹkobéžec), конькобе́жка (ru) f (konʹkobéžka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: клѝза̄ч m, клиза̀чица f

  Roman: klìzāč (sh) m, klizàčica (sh) f

• Slovak: korčuliar m, korčuliarka f
• Slovene: drsalec (sl) m, drsalka (sl) f
• Spanish: patinador m, patinadora (es) f
• Swedish: skrinnare (sv) c, skridskoåkare (sv) c, skatare c (slang, mainly a person who rollerskates)
• Tajik: конкитоз (konkitoz)
• Thai: นักสเกต (nák-sà-gét)
• Turkish: patenci (tr)
• Ukrainian: ковзаня́р (uk) m (kovzanjár), ковзаня́рка (uk) f (kovzanjárka), конькобі́жець m (konʹkobížecʹ), конькобі́жка f (konʹkobížka)
• Uzbek: konʼkichi
• Vietnamese: người trượt băng
• Volapük: (♂♀ ice) sketan (vo), (♂) hisketan, (♀) jisketan, (♂♀ roller) luibilasketan, (♂) luibilahisketan, (♀) luibilajisketan, (older term, ♂♀ ice) gladajukan, (♂) gladahijukan, (♀) gladajijukan

member of skateboarding subculture

• Bulgarian: скейтборди́ст m (skejtbordíst), скейтборди́стка f (skejtbordístka)
• Esperanto: rultabulisto
• Finnish: skeittari (fi)
• Polish: skejt (pl) m
• Portuguese: skatista (pt) m or f
• Russian: скейтборди́ст (ru) m (skejtbordíst), скейтборди́стка f (skejtbordístka)
• Turkish: kaykaycı (tr)

ice hockey: player other than goaltender

• Finnish: kenttäpelaaja (fi)
• German: Feldspieler m

insect — see water strider

Anagrams

• Starke, Staker, tasker, Krastë, takers, strake, rakest, trakes, streak, Akters, retask, staker, tareks, Kaster, Tasker, sakret

Basque

Etymology

From English skater.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es̺kei̯ter/ [es̺.kei̯.t̪er]
• Rhymes: -ei̯ter

Noun

skater anim

1. skateboarder

Declension

Declension of skater (animate, ending in consonant)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	skater	skater-a	skater-ak
ergative	skater-ek	skater-ak	skater-ek
dative	skater-i	skater-ari	skater-ei
genitive	skater-en	skater-aren	skater-en
comitative	skater-ekin	skater-arekin	skater-ekin
causative	skater-engatik	skater-arengatik	skater-engatik
benefactive	skater-entzat	skater-arentzat	skater-entzat
instrumental	skater-ez	skater-az	skater-ez
inessive	skater-engan	skater-arengan	skater-engan
locative	—	—	—
allative	skater-engana	skater-arengana	skater-engana
terminative	skater-enganaino	skater-arenganaino	skater-enganaino
directive	skater-enganantz	skater-arenganantz	skater-enganantz
destinative	skater-enganako	skater-arenganako	skater-enganako
ablative	skater-engandik	skater-arengandik	skater-engandik
partitive	skater-ik	—	—
prolative	skater-tzat	—	—

Related terms

• skate (“skateboard”)

 

Further reading

• “skater”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

French

Etymology

From English to skate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɛ.te/ ~ /ske.te/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

skater

1. to skateboard

Conjugation

Conjugation of skater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	skater
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	skatant /skɛ.tɑ̃/ or /ske.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		skaté /skɛ.te/ or /ske.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	skate /skɛt/	skates /skɛt/	skate /skɛt/	skatons /skɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ske.tɔ̃/	skatez /skɛ.te/ or /ske.te/	skatent /skɛt/
	imperfect	skatais /skɛ.tɛ/ or /ske.tɛ/	skatais /skɛ.tɛ/ or /ske.tɛ/	skatait /skɛ.tɛ/ or /ske.tɛ/	skations /skɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ske.tjɔ̃/	skatiez /skɛ.tje/ or /ske.tje/	skataient /skɛ.tɛ/ or /ske.tɛ/
	past historic2	skatai /skɛ.te/ or /ske.te/	skatas /skɛ.ta/ or /ske.ta/	skata /skɛ.ta/ or /ske.ta/	skatâmes /skɛ.tam/ or /ske.tam/	skatâtes /skɛ.tat/ or /ske.tat/	skatèrent /skɛ.tɛʁ/ or /ske.tɛʁ/
	future	skaterai /skɛ.tʁe/ or /ske.tʁe/	skateras /skɛ.tʁa/ or /ske.tʁa/	skatera /skɛ.tʁa/ or /ske.tʁa/	skaterons /skɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ske.tʁɔ̃/	skaterez /skɛ.tʁe/ or /ske.tʁe/	skateront /skɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ske.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	skaterais /skɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ske.tʁɛ/	skaterais /skɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ske.tʁɛ/	skaterait /skɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ske.tʁɛ/	skaterions /skɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ske.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	skateriez /skɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ske.tə.ʁje/	skateraient /skɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ske.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	skate /skɛt/	skates /skɛt/	skate /skɛt/	skations /skɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ske.tjɔ̃/	skatiez /skɛ.tje/ or /ske.tje/	skatent /skɛt/
	imperfect2	skatasse /skɛ.tas/ or /ske.tas/	skatasses /skɛ.tas/ or /ske.tas/	skatât /skɛ.ta/ or /ske.ta/	skatassions /skɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /ske.ta.sjɔ̃/	skatassiez /skɛ.ta.sje/ or /ske.ta.sje/	skatassent /skɛ.tas/ or /ske.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	skate /skɛt/	—	skatons /skɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ske.tɔ̃/	skatez /skɛ.te/ or /ske.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir past participle	simple imperative of avoir past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• skateur

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

skater m (definite singular skateren, indefinite plural skatere, definite plural skaterne)

1. a skater (skateboarder)

Noun

skater m

1. indefinite plural of skate

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

skater f

1. indefinite plural of skate

Spanish

Noun

skater m (plural skaters or skater)

1. skater, skateboarder