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skating by

skating by is the present participle and gerund 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 skating by

What is skating by the present participle and gerund of?
Skating by is the present participle and gerund of skate by.

Words near skating by in the dictionary

  1. skathe
  2. Skathi
  3. skatin'
  4. skating
  5. skating around
  6. skating by
  7. skating on
  8. skating on thin ice
  9. skating one's lane
  10. skating over
  11. skating rink

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skating 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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