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skated by

skated by is the simple past and past participle of skate by.

Meaning of skate by

Verb

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

  1. To get through something difficult with ease.
    • Jeff finds this stuff easy, so he just skates by at work.

Questions about skated by

What is skated by the simple past and past participle of?
Skated by is the simple past and past participle of skate by.

Words near skated by in the dictionary

  1. skateboardlike
  2. skateboards
  3. skatecore
  4. skated
  5. skated around
  6. skated by
  7. skated on
  8. skated on thin ice
  9. skated one's lane
  10. skated over
  11. skatefish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skated by (page history and authors); skate by (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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