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skating

skating

English

Verb

skating

present participle of skate

Noun

skating ‎(usually uncountable, plural skatings)

The action or sport of moving along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
- 1854, Charles Manby Smith, The working-man's way in the world (page 283)
  My merry Christmas and first matrimonial plum-pudding, which I had a hand in compounding — the sprig of mistletoe which I bought for home-consumption, the walks in the parks and the skatings on the Serpentine during the two days' holiday […]

Derived terms

terms derived from skating (noun)

Translations

action or sport

Arabic: تَزَلُّج m ‎(tazalluj)
Catalan: patinatge (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 溜冰 (zh) ‎(liūbīng), 滑冰 (zh) ‎(huábīng)
Czech: bruslení (cs) n
Estonian: suusatamine
Finnish: luistelu (fi)
French: glisse (fr) f, patinage (fr) m
German: Schlittschuhlaufen n, Skaten (de) n, Eislaufen (de) n

Italian: pattinaggio (it) m
Japanese: スケート (ja) ‎(sukēto), スケーティング ‎(sukētingu)
Mongolian:
Persian: اسکیت‌سواری ‎(eskeyt-savâri)
Polish: łyżwiarstwo (pl) n
Portuguese: patinação f
Russian: ката́ние на конька́х n ‎(katánije na konʹkáx) (activity), конькобе́жный спорт m ‎(konʹkobéžnyj sport) (sport)
Scottish Gaelic: speileadh m, speileireachd f, (Canada) sgeatadh m
Spanish: patinaje m

Anagrams

skin tag, staking, takings, tasking