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skateway

skateway noun: an ice rink or other route for ice skating.

Noun

skateway (plural skateways)

  1. (rare) An ice rink or other route for ice skating.
    • In the winter it would freeze over into a skateway.1975, Dennis Holloway, Huldah Curl, Franz C Hall, Winona: towards an energy conserving community
    • One night after the incident, Stribling told a skateway employee, Crawford, that the rink had had trouble with a "nigger" (Johnson) the night before...1992, West's federal reporter

Forms of skateway

pluralskateways

Origin of skateway

From skate + way.

Questions about skateway

What does skateway mean?
Skateway means an ice rink or other route for ice skating.
What part of speech is skateway?
Skateway is a noun.
What is the plural of skateway?
The plural of skateway is skateways.

Words near skateway in the dictionary

  1. skates on thin ice
  2. skates one's lane
  3. skates over
  4. skateshop
  5. skateshops
  6. skateway
  7. skateways
  8. skatewear
  9. skathe
  10. Skathi
  11. skatin'

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