pond-skater

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

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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