Skating
['skeɪtɪŋ] or ['sketɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skate
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Examples
- Everybody is so hateful, I'll ask Laurie to go skating. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Loerke would go toboganning or skating, in little snatches, but he was indifferent. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr Fledgeby found that he was skating round a board marked Dangerous, and had better cut out a fresh track. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Fine time for them as is well wropped up, as the Polar bear said to himself, ven he was practising his skating,' replied Mr. Weller. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Laurie did not see, for he was carefully skating along the shore, sounding the ice, for a warm spell had preceded the cold snap. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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