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ice-skate

ice-skate is the alternative form of ice skate.

Meaning of ice skate

Noun

ice skate (plural ice skates)

  1. A light boot, fitted with a blade, used for ice skating.

Verb

ice-skate (third-person singular simple present ice-skates, present participle ice-skating, simple past and past participle ice-skated)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) to skate on ice, wearing ice skates.
    • She had ice-skated the entire lake.
    • Aasha had seen pictures of people ice-skating in the wintertime, two by two in fur-trimmed hoods and mittens.2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 294

Forms of ice-skate

Noun
pluralice-skates
Verb
third-person singular presentice-skates
present participleice-skating
past participleice-skated
pastice-skated

Questions about ice-skate

What does ice-skate mean?
Ice-skate means to skate on ice, wearing ice skates.
What is ice-skate the alternative form of?
Ice-skate is the alternative form of ice skate.
What part of speech is ice-skate?
Ice-skate is a verb.
What is the past tense of ice-skate?
The past tense of ice-skate is ice-skated.

Words near ice-skate in the dictionary

  1. ice-saws
  2. ice-sheet
  3. ice-sheets
  4. ice-shelf
  5. ice-shelves
  6. ice-skate
  7. ice-skated
  8. ice-skates
  9. ice-skating
  10. ice-skating rink
  11. ice-skating rinks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ice-skate (page history and authors); ice skate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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