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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skater

Skater \Skat"er\, n.

  1. One who skates.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects belonging to Gerris, Pyrrhocoris, Prostemma, and allied genera. They have long legs, and run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
skater

1700, "one who ice-skates," agent noun from skate (v.). Extended to skateboarders by 1977.

Wiktionary
skater

n. 1 A person who skates. 2 A member of skateboarding subculture, characterized by dingy and baggy clothes, and often wallet chains. 3 (context ice hockey English) A player who is not a goaltender. 4 Any of numerous hemipterous insects in the family Gerridae, which run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.

WordNet
skater

n. someone who skates

Wikipedia
Skater

Skater may refer to:

Skater (band)

Skater (formerly Skuter) is a Slovenian fusion dance music and turbo-folk duo comprising Samcy Jay and Nuša Rojs. The band's original name lampoons the German eurodance band Scooter.

Usage examples of "skater".

And talking to another skater, a guy with a red bandanna around his head.

He does a kamikaze linebacker blitz straight through the skaters, barrels them down like bowling pins, catches Ho, and keeps running downfield towards the moving flatbed of the Bronco.

There came the grinding speed-stop of a skater from the gliddery outside.

In the last two min-utes of play, New York pulled their goalie for an extra skater.

Except for the skaters and sledders on the ice, there were not many people outdoors here to stop and gaze and listen to the band and calliope music.

An early-morning blader, who looked too old and bald and fat and way too rich for his skater gear, went by on the lakeside skateway his face turned toward the cluster of cops.

To spend all this money on the coolest house in the Metaverse and then have some skater come in done up in grainy black-and-white.

She imagined herself in the kinds of outfits Helen had worn as a child, a short black skirt with a girl skater appliqued on it, a woolen helmet that made Helen look like a bald turtle, cursive initials stitched into the side.

She had the sensations of a skater on treacherously thin ice, as she watched the slow, cautious scrutiny of his unbetraying face.

With the canals frozen, thousands of skaters took to the ice, a spectacle that provided what little cheer Adams found in life.

He might not be the fastest skater in the world, but he was renowned for his relentless, crushing forecheck and his refusal to ever back down.

After half an hour, the coach called all the skaters together for some drills, and Pete worked with Jordie on basic goaltending moves.

The skater went into a final layback spin, looking like a ballerina on a music box.

Not a finesse skater, he galloped down the ice, stickhandling with one hand, and fending off attackers with the other.

Sometimes in boat-loads, sometimes in carriage-loads, sometimes in processions of skaters, they came to the meetings in Pansophian Hall, as it was now commonly called.