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ice skates

  • plural
    of ice skate.
    ice skate
    noun
    a shoe fitted with a metal blade for skating skate on ice.
ice-skates
  • present tense form
    of ice-skate (3rd person singular).
    ice skate
    noun
    a shoe fitted with a metal blade for skating skate on ice.

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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

She also performed the song at the ceremony, external - arriving on stage aboard a ski lift, while surrounded by dancers on ice skates.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2023

While roller skates used to be only 20% of Harlick’s business, they’re now more popular than ice skates.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2022

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

On Saturday Bess would wear a pretty costume and ice skates with pink pom-poms.

From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene

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 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

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

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