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Skate Definition–noun
| 3. | the blade of an ice skate. |
| 4. | a skid on a lifeboat to facilitate launching from a listing ship. |
–verb (used without object) | 5. | to glide or propel oneself over ice, the ground, etc., on skates. |
| 6. | to glide or slide smoothly along. |
| 7. | Slang. to shirk one's duty; loaf. |
| 8. | (of the tone arm on a record player) to swing toward the spindle while a record is playing. |
–verb (used with object) | 9. | to slide (a flat) across the floor of a stage. |
—Idioms| 10. | get or put one's skates on, British Informal. to make haste. |
| 11. | skate on thin ice, to be or place oneself in a risky or delicate situation: Taking a public stand on the question would be skating on thin ice. |
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Related topics from Britannicaice hockey
game between two teams, each usually having six players, who wear skates and compete on an ice rink. The object is to propel a vulcanized rubber disk, the puck, past a goal line and into a net ...
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Grafstrom, Gillis
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ice skating
the recreation and sport of gliding across an ice surface on blades fixed to the bottoms of shoes (skates). The activity of ice skating has given rise to two distinctive sports: figure skating, which ...
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Bracebridge Examiner - Found 10 hours ago
... is calling on the community to participate in the 2008 Great Skate Exchange Event to provide new or used skates and hockey equipment to those...
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Hockey players teach others to skate
Marshfield News Herald - Found 12 hours ago
... skate at the Free Preschool Open Skate. Ten members of the Marshfield Girls Varsity Hockey Team turned out to help out with Free Learn To Skate.
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Minutemen to hold free public skate
Daily Collegian - Found Oct. 17, 2008
The Massachusetts hockey team is hosting the annual Skate with the Minutemen on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Mullins Center practice rink during their
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Ash-West Youth Hockey to host free sessions
Sentinel and Enterprise - Found Oct. 16, 2008
The Ashburnham-Westminster Youth Hockey Association has announced it will host free learn-to-skate/learn-to-play-hockey sessions throughout this fall ...
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Kent Youth Hockey hosts instructional programs
News-Times - Found Oct. 9, 2008
Registration for Kent Youth Hockey's Learn to Skate and hockey development programs is underway for the 2008-09 season.
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First practice today for U men's hockey
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Found Oct. 4, 2008
The men's hockey team will skate early this morning and again at 3 p.m. at refurbished Mariucci Arena, which has new glass and boards around...
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Gophers men’s hockey first practice Saturday
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Found Oct. 3, 2008
The men's hockey team will skate early this morning and again at 3 p.m. at refurbished Mariucci Arena, which has new glass and boards around...
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Malarchuk, ex-hockey star, shoots self in chin
Nevada Appeal - Found Oct. 11, 2008
An ex-National Hockey League goalie - best known for surviving a skate slice across his jugular during a game - accidentally shot himself in the chin ...
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Malarchuk, ex-hockey star, shoots self in chin
Nevada Appeal - Found Oct. 10, 2008
An ex-National Hockey League goalie - best known for surviving a skate slice across his jugular during a game - accidentally shot himself in the chin ...
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Columbus Traveling Hockey Team Raises Money
WRBL-TV - Found Oct. 12, 2008
... org/Site/Welcome.htmlThe Junior Snake Youth Travel Hockey Team is the first traveling team in Columbus. The sponsored a skate day to help with...
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