skater
- a person who skates.
- water strider.
Origin of skater
Examples from the Web for skater
Contemporary Examples of 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
But I could not bear the thought of skater Takahashi being seen by the world as a co-conspirator in our crime.
Sajed fearlessly slapped on the rollerblades to give them a whirl, and a skater was born.
Weir: I've spoken with Vera Wang, she used to be a skater herself.
There were skater boys phone banking, grade-schoolers sorting call sheets.
Why Obama Staffers Are Secretly Worried, and Other Dispatches from the Campaign TrailThe Daily Beast
October 26, 2008
Historical Examples of skater
I am as sure of my line as a skater of making his figure of eight!
Roundabout PapersWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
On and on he glided, on what seemed to him the most perfect ice that skater ever tried.
Winter Adventures of Three BoysEgerton R. Young
The skater must keep himself erect, leaning most on the heel.
"The white ones are the Druids," said Wulf the Skater to his companions.
Ulric the JarlWilliam O. Stoddard
"Guide me to the river and the marsh," he said to Wulf the Skater.
Ulric the JarlWilliam O. Stoddard
skater
- 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
Word Origin and History for skater
1700, "one who ice-skates," agent noun from skate (v.). Extended to skateboarders by 1977.