ice skate
noun
ice skates
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pluralof ice skate.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Others have enjoyed their snow day by getting out the sleds or ice skates.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026
We were just doing what we were hired to do: Tell stories not about ice skates or about baseball bats but about human beings.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024
Police in the capital of Bismarck responded to more than 175 crashes on Tuesday, and roads were so slick in the city that people donned ice skates for fun on neighborhood streets.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
Picture going for a whirl in a swiveling office chair—or, if you’d prefer a sportier option, popping on a pair of ice skates and taking a spin.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 19, 2022
Mr. Little made him a pair of ice skates out of two paper clips.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
As well as the perfume atomiser, Florjancic's inventions include plastic ice-skates and the plastic photographic slide frame.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2020
From Monte Carlo he moved to Villach, Austria, in 1963, where he would invent plastic ice-skates and the plastic photographic slide frame.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2011
The two presents that Sunny Boy liked most were a little pocket searchlight and his ice-skates.
From Sunny Boy and His Playmates by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings
The youth carried two pairs of ice-skates slung over his shoulder; as he entered the room he flung them clattering to the floor.
From The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings
L. C. Hamlin, Grand Junction, Mich., a U.S. flag 5 feet by 3 feet and a pair of extension, nickel-plated ice-skates for a watch.
From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 by James Elverson
