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How to use skater in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun

Skater means a person who skates. Example: “Most figure skaters do not spot their turns like dancers do.”

More sentences with skater

  • Most figure skaters do not spot their turns like dancers do.From the entry spot
  • The skater slipped off his board and did a painful faceplant.From the entry faceplant
  • The gracious movements of the figure skaters impressed the judges.From the entry gracious
  • A zamboni is a big machine that resurfaces ice at a rink so it is smooth as glass for the skaters.From the entry resurface
  • The skater performed a beautiful axel.From the entry beautiful
  • Kilda beach and its passing parade of in-line skaters, skateboarders, dog walkers, and ice-cream lickers.2019, Fodor's Essential Australia. From the entry licker
  • 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
  • It was Valery who had named her firstborn Sonya, after the figure skater Sonja Henie.1983, Sheila Ballantyne, Imaginary Crimes, Penguin Group USA, →ISBN. From the entry Sonya
  • The funny part was, though, we were the worst skaters on the whole goddam rink.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 167. From the entry goddam
  • With cameras in their faces, figure skaters awaiting their scores in the kiss-and-cry area offer a scene unlike any other.2010 February 21, Juliet Macur, “After Skating, a Unique Olympic Event: Crying”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Feb 2014. From the entry kiss and cry
  • The skaters deliberately turned away as the bikers chanted, ‘Superman!2008, Andrew Fusek Peters, “The Bowl and the Bully”, in Diamonds are for Evil (Skateboard Detectives), London: Orchard Books, →ISBN. From the entry superman
  • Board and skater orientations were slerped, and the velocity was re-computed back from the positional Hermite curve rather than being interpolated.2008, Mark Wesley, “Navigating Detailed Worlds with a Complex, Physically Driven Locomotion: NPC Skateboarder AI in EA's skate”, in…. From the entry slerp
  • I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air.2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete. From the entry camera
  • The seating area where skaters wait for the judges' scores is called the "kiss and cry" for good reason.2001 October 23, Mark Starr, “Starr Gazing: Kwan's Big Breakup”, in Newsweek, retrieved 21 Feb 2014. From the entry kiss and cry
  • So he quit being a skater and became a Deadhead.2001, Jacques Whitecloud, The Sin Eater, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry upset the natives
  • Many people say that skaters who had to do figures learned to freeskate better because figures teach you edge control.1997, Brian Boitano, Suzanne Harper, Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating, page 27. From the entry edge control
  • Hugh, himself a graceful skater, even with his gammie hoof, would be on the pond hot foot from his round.1985, M. Dick, “The Street”, in Erch in Urchinage: Being Stories and Notes about the Town of Inverness from 1918 to 1939, Edinburgh: Albyn…. From the entry gammie
  • Generally skaters run on their stops until they are about to fall forward; then they change to the Duck Walk.1979, Ann-Victoria Phillips, The Complete Book of Roller-Skating, page 195. From the entry duck walk
  • Our interest is not in core skaters such as young males and pro skaters but the voices of those on the periphery of the subculture.2015, Kara-Jane Lombard, Skateboarding: Subcultures, Sites and Shifts, page 45. From the entry core
  • Frau Volk and Frau Schönherr had abandoned their demi-tasses of espresso and were scanning the crowd of skaters, their faces pinched in cold disapproval.2005, John Meaney, Resolution (The Nulapeiron Sequence; 3), London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry demi-tasse
  • All the way, we played cards, smoked, and laughed over how Gloria and this other skater got in this fight for every night's blowoff .2005, D. Bordner, Roller Babes, page 83. From the entry blowoff
  • On the other hand, you may see a skater hit all his triples in practice, then he mops up the ice during the competition.1997, Brian Boitano, Suzanne Harper, Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry mop up the ice
  • It comes from the fact that skaters are more likely, as you say, to color outside the lines, and that inclination frightens and confuses most people and institutions.2007, Bret Anthony Johnston, Corpus Christi: Stories. From the entry color outside the lines
  • Already a keen inline skater, he picked up the new skills quickly and suddenly found himself in the selection squad for a hockey tournament in Canada.2007, Lincoln Hall, Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest, New York, N.Y.: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry game sense
  • The lady skaters feature the most ridiculously jigglesome breasts yet seen in a video game, making the bosoms of Dead Or Alive 3 look like rock-hard sandbags in comparison.2002 October, Steven Baily, Kevin Cheung, “Aggressive Inline”, in Official Australian Xbox Magazine, number 7, via Internet Archive…. From the entry jigglesome

Meaning of skater

  1. noun A person who skates.
  2. noun A skateboarder.
  3. noun A member of skateboarding subculture, characterized by dingy and baggy clothes, and often wallet chains.

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Questions about skater in a sentence

How do you use skater in a sentence?
Skater is used as a noun. For example: “Most figure skaters do not spot their turns like dancers do.”
What is a short sentence with skater?
“The skater performed a beautiful axel.”
What does skater mean?
Skater means a person who skates.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skater (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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