skating
Noun: 1. The sport or activity of gliding on ice or a hard surface using skates: This refers to the act or skill of moving on skates, typically for recreation, sport, or transportation. It involves propelling oneself across a surface using bladed or wheeled footwear.
- General Activity: Used to describe the activity itself.
- I go skating every weekend at the rink.
- Skating requires good balance and coordination.
- Competitive Sport: Used to refer to the organized sport.
- Figure skating is an Olympic sport.
- She has been training in speed skating for years.
- "to go skating": a common phrase meaning to participate in the activity of skating.
- Let's go skating this afternoon.
- Used attributively (as a noun modifier): The noun "skating" can describe other nouns.
- We bought new skating boots.
- The city built a new skating facility.
- Skate (verb): To move on skates.
- He learned to skate when he was five.
- Skate (noun): The footwear used for skating.
- I need to sharpen my ice skates.
- Skater (noun): A person who skates.
- The skater performed a perfect jump.
- Gliding: Moving smoothly and continuously along.
- Ice-skating: Specifically skating on ice (a hyponym of skating).
(Note: These are compound terms where "skating" is part of a larger concept.) - Figure skating: A sport involving jumps, spins, and choreographed routines on ice. - Speed skating: A competitive form of skating where the goal is to achieve the fastest time over a set distance. - Roller skating: Skating on a hard surface using shoes with wheels. - In-line skating: Skating using skates with wheels in a single line (also called rollerblading).
(Note: Common idioms are typically formed with the verb "skate," not the noun "skating.") - "Skate on thin ice" (idiom using the verb 'skate'): To be in a risky or dangerous situation. - By lying to his boss, he is skating on thin ice.