pond-skater

British

noun

Also called: water strider. water skater. any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris ( common pond-skater ), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds

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Later he sprinted thirty yards with the ball, gliding left and right with that pond-skater style.

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Later he shifted up a gear and became a traumatic prospect for Croatia’s left side, covering the ground like a pond-skater, barely breaking the surface tension.

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