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skated

  • past participle of skate.
  • past tense form of skate.

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Skated to pianist George Winston's New Age music, the program bombed with a few judges and many spectators.

From Time Magazine Archive

We fished and hunted together, In summer, the lakes we would swim, Skated their surface in winter, With mercurial, wonderful Tim.

From Our Profession and Other Poems by Barhite, Jared

Skated an hour; fell twenty times, and find the advantage of a hard head.

From Famous Americans of Recent Times by Parton, James

The spiders wove their webs upon the ceiling; The bat clung to the wall; The dry leaves through the open transom stealing, Skated and danced adown the empty hall.

From Poems by Howells, William Dean