SKATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skating mean? 

• SKATING (noun)
  The noun SKATING has 1 sense:

1. the sport of gliding on skates

  Familiarity information: SKATING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKATING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sport of gliding on skates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("skating" is a kind of...):

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "skating"):

ice skating (skating on ice)

roller skating (skating on wheels)

skateboarding (the sport of skating on a skateboard)

speed skating (competitive skating on speed skates (usually around an oval course))

Derivation:

skate (move along on skates)

 Context examples 

Laurie did not see, for he was carefully skating along the shore, sounding the ice, for a warm spell had preceded the cold snap.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Everybody is so hateful, I'll ask Laurie to go skating. He is always kind and jolly, and will put me to rights, I know," said Jo to herself, and off she went.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Such plays and tableaux, such sleigh rides and skating frolics, such pleasant evenings in the old parlor, and now and then such gay little parties at the great house.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Half a dozen jovial lads were talking about skates in another part of the room, and she longed to go and join them, for skating was one of the joys of her life.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)