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
I do think there’s a little bit of, he’s on ice skates a little bit more than he typically is.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 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
My older brother Tsalig helped me create ice skates from all kinds of unlikely materials, metal remnants retrieved from our grandfather the blacksmith and bits of wood from the firewood pile.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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 Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)
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 Elverson, James
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 Cummings, Ray
