Plural of skate
regular plural
The plural of skate is skates.
Forms of skate
| Singular | skate /skeɪt/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | skates /skeɪts/ |
| Countable | countable |
Plural of skate by meaning
- a runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made...: skates
- a fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas....: skates or skate
Skates in a sentence
- Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times
- If I don't get my skates on now I'm going to be late!From the entry get one's skates on
- Jeff finds this stuff easy, so he just skates by at work.From the entry skate by
- Some companies are just beginning to make hockey pants, pelvic protectors, and skates for girls.2015, Sue Irwin, “A Dangerous Game”, in Safety Stars: Players who fought to make the hard-hitting game of professional hockey safer…. From the entry jill
- What's different about Skate-N-Fun Zone this morning are the skaters, mostly thirty-something women on skates pushing strollers.2004 October 28, Denice A. Jobe, “Let the Good Times Roll”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN…. From the entry thirty-something
Meaning of skate
- noun A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
- noun The act of skateboarding.
- noun The act of roller skating or ice skating.
Questions about the plural of skate
- What is the plural of skate?
- The plural of skate is skates.
- Is skate countable?
- Skate is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: skate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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