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skates by

skates by is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 skates by

What is skates by the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Skates by is the third-person singular simple present indicative of skate by.

Words near skates by in the dictionary

  1. skater rat
  2. skaterly
  3. skaters
  4. skates
  5. skates around
  6. skates by
  7. skates on
  8. skates on thin ice
  9. skates one's lane
  10. skates over
  11. skateshop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skates 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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