skating

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskeɪtɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ

Verb

skating

1. present participle and gerund of skate

Noun

skating (usually uncountable, plural skatings)

1. The action of moving along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
   • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Prudence”, in Essays: First Series:

     In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

   • 1854, Charles Manby Smith, The working-man's way in the world, page 283:

     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 […]

   • 2019, Grace Livingston Hill, Aunt Crete's Emancipation:

     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.

2. (uncountable) The sport of moving along a surface using skates.
3. (skiing, uncountable) 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.

Coordinate terms

(skiing):

• striding
• double poling

Derived terms

terms derived from skating (noun)

• figure skating
• free skating
• ice skating
• in-line skating
• park skating
• roller skating
• skating on thin ice
• skating rink
• ski skating
• speed skating
• street skating
• synchronised skating, synchronized skating

Translations

action or sport

• Arabic: تَزَلُّج m (tazalluj)
• Catalan: patinatge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溜冰 (zh) (liūbīng), 滑冰 (zh) (huábīng)

• Czech: bruslení (cs) n
• Estonian: uisutamine
• Finnish: luistelu (fi)
• French: glisse (fr) f, patinage (fr) m
• German: Schlittschuhlaufen n, Skaten (de) n, Eislaufen (de) n
• Hebrew: החלקה (he) f (hakhlaka)
• Italian: pattinaggio (it) m
• Japanese: スケート (ja) (sukēto), スケーティング (sukētingu)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: اسکیت‌سواری (eskeyt-savâri)
• Polish: łyżwiarstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: patinação (pt) f (Brazil), patinagem (pt) (Portugal)
• Russian: ката́ние на конька́х n (katánije na konʹkáx) (activity), конькобе́жный спорт m (konʹkobéžnyj sport) (sport), ске́йтинг (ru) m (skéjting), скейтбо́рдинг (ru) m (skejtbórding)
• Scottish Gaelic: speileadh m, speileireachd f, (Canada) sgeatadh m
• Spanish: patinaje m

Anagrams

• Gitksan, skin tag, skin-tag, skintag, staking, takings, tasking

French

Noun

skating m (plural skatings)

1. (skiing) skating

Further reading

• “skating”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English skating or French skating.

Noun

skating n (plural skatinguri)

1. skating

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	skating	skatingul		skatinguri	skatingurile
genitive-dative	skating	skatingului		skatinguri	skatingurilor
vocative	skatingule			skatingurilor