skater

[ skey-ter ]

/ ˈskeɪ tər /

noun

a person who skates.

water strider.

Nearby words

skateboard, skateboarder, skateboarding, skatemobile, skatepark, skater, skating, skatole, skatoxyl, skaw, skaw, the

Origin of skater

First recorded in 1690–1700; skate¹ + -er¹

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Examples from the Web for skater

Maybe the judges scored the Russian skater generously because they just wanted to be done with it all and get out of Sochi alive.
Sotnikova Beat Kim Yu-Na? Figure Skating Is Probably Corrupt (But We Knew That)|Kevin Fallon|February 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But I could not bear the thought of skater Takahashi being seen by the world as a co-conspirator in our crime.
Japan’s Beloved Deaf Composer is Neither Deaf Nor a Composer|Jimmy So|February 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sajed fearlessly slapped on the rollerblades to give them a whirl, and a skater was born.
If You Build It, They Will Skate|Maysoon Zayid|July 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Weir: I've spoken with Vera Wang, she used to be a skater herself.
The Outrageous Johnny Weir|Choire Sicha|January 12, 2010|DAILY BEAST

There were skater boys phone banking, grade-schoolers sorting call sheets.
Why Obama Staffers Are Secretly Worried, and Other Dispatches from the Campaign Trail|The Daily Beast|October 26, 2008|DAILY BEAST
I am as sure of my line as a skater of making his figure of eight!
Roundabout Papers|William Makepeace Thackeray
Ulric stood fast for a moment, but forward with Sigurd went Wulf the Skater full of war wrath.
Ulric the Jarl|William O. Stoddard
The skater selected the fittest skate, and hence the fit skate survived.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays|J. (John) Joly
A couple of strong cords were secured to the center spar to provide for fastening the sail onto the skater.
The Scientific American Boy|A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond
But you cut a metallic surface with one edge only; the furrow drawn by a skater on the surface of ice is like it on a large scale.
Ariadne Florentina|John Ruskin

British Dictionary definitions for skater

skater

/ (ˈskeɪtə) /

noun

a person who skates

same as skateboarderSee skateboarder

British informal a young person who typically wears baggy clothes and spends a lot of time skateboarding

See pond-skater

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Word Origin and History for skater

skater

1700, "one who ice-skates," agent noun from skate (v.). Extended to skateboarders by 1977.

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