Obsolete spelling of skater, usually referring to an ice skater.

(ice hockey) A type of ice skate used in ice hockey, with a smooth skate blade attached to a skate boot via two pillars, one at the heel and one at the ball of the foot.

(sports, longtrack speedskating) a type of speedskate used in longtrack speedskating, where the skate blade is hinged at the front pillar to the boot, with the heel pillar being free, and kept in place by a spring mechanism.

(South Africa) A venomous snake of genus Psammophylax.

(idiomatic) To avoid addressing or tackling. / (ice hockey) To defeat convincingly; trounce.

present participle of skate on thin ice

Alternative form of in-line skating

(Scotland, law, obsolete) Alternative form of scathe (“damage”)

(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing copper, gold, iron, lead, palladium, platinum, tellurium, tin, and zinc.

(music) A genre that blends ska music with hardcore punk.