{i} ice skate, shoe with a blade on the bottom for gliding on ice; roller skate, shoe with wheels on the bottom for gliding on hard surfaces; any of a number of large flat fish that are related to rays
If you skate, you move about wearing ice-skates or roller-skates. I actually skated, and despite some teetering I did not fall on the ice Dan skated up to him. + skating skat·ing They all went skating together in the winter. + skater skaters skat·er West Lake, an outdoor ice-skating rink, attracts skaters during the day and night
Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal fin
If you skate over or round a difficult subject, you avoid discussing it. Scientists have tended to skate over the difficulties of explaining dreams When pressed, he skates around the subject of those women who he met as a 19-year-old. Any of various rays of the genus Raja, having a flattened body and greatly expanded pectoral fins that extend around the head. Any of nine genera (suborder Rajoidea) of rounded to diamond-shaped rays. These bottom-dwellers are found from tropical to near-Arctic waters and from the shallows to depths of more than 9,000 ft (2,700 m). Most have spines on the upper surface, and some have weak electrical organs in their long, slender tails. Skates lay oblong, leathery eggs (called mermaid's purses), which are often found on beaches. Species vary from 20 in. (50 cm) to 8 ft (2.5 m) long. They swim with an undulating movement of their pectoral fins. They trap active mollusk, crustacean, and fish prey by dropping down on them from above. Skates' "wings" are edible. figure skating roller skating speed skating
In the Ray family California to Alaska Low fat, only wings are edible, and must be removed immediately to prevent contamination Pink meat cooks up white Sweet flavor
(fiil) kaymak, paten yapmak, patenle kaymak, patinaj yapmak