/skeɪt; sket/ n
1 (a) (also `ice-skate) either of a pair of boots with steel blades fixed to the soles so that the wearer can glide smoothly over ice 溜冰鞋.
(b) one of these blades 冰刀.
2 = roller-skate (roller).
3 (idm 习语) get/put one's `skates on (infml 口) hurry up 赶快
*Get your skates on or you'll miss the bus. 快点儿, 不然你就赶不上公共汽车了.

v [I, Ipr, Ip, Tn]
1 move on skates; perform (sth) while moving in this way 溜冰; 溜冰表演（某动作）
*Can you skate? 你会滑冰吗?
* skate along, past, over, etc (sth) 溜冰沿着、经过、越过...（某物）
* skate a figure of eight 溜8字形.
2 (idm 习语) be skating on thin `ice talk about or do sth that can easily cause disagreement, protest or other trouble 谈论或做易引起分歧、反对意见或其他麻烦的事
*We could ignore him and go direct to the chairman, but we'd be skating on very thin ice. 我们可以不理会他而直接去找主席, 但那样做我们就如履薄冰了.
3 (phr v) skate over/round sth not deal with sth directly 间接处理某事物; 不直接触及某事物
*skate over a difficulty, a delicate issue 对一困难、敏感问题一带而过
* She skated round the likely cost of the plan. 她婉转地提到这项计画可能需要的费用.

/skeɪt; sket/
n (pl unchanged or ~s 复数或不变或作 skates) large flat long-tailed fish that lives in the sea and is eaten as food 鳐（体大扁平、尾长的海鱼, 可食）.

The New Zealand smooth skate, Dipturus innominatus, is a skate of the genus Dipturus, found around New Zealand at depths of between 15 and 1,300 m. Their length is up to 2.