What is "skating"

Usage examples of "skating".

Christmas party, which was going to be dull with an exceeding great dullness, no matter how the Braithwaites might tear their hair to make it interesting, Dinny went skating in the park.

She said it hardly seemed fair that big fibbers could get so rich by skating the thin ice just within the law.

Next morning with a whoosh they are off east again, and in a few hours sailing are out on the ice with no land visible, skating on the gusty wind with runners clattering or shussing or whining or blasting, depending on wind and ice consistencies.

Before he could give them hockey lessons, they needed skating lessons.

That winter of 1927-8, there was a fairly large crowd for the Winter Sports, and if most of them found dancing and drinking more reasonable than going out into the cold for skiing and luging and skating why, that merely lessened all worry as to whether there was enough snow.

Moorish town houses, restaurants that look like car washes, car washes, shopping centers, a fish market, a skimobile shop, an automotive accessory shop, liquor stores, a delicatessen in three clashing colors, a motel with an in-room steam bath, a motel with a relaxing vibrator bed, a car dealer, an indoor skating rink attractively done in brick and corrugated plastic, a trailer park, another motel composed of individual cabins, an automobile dealership attractively done in glass and corrugated plastic, an enormous steak house with life-sized plastic cows grazing out front in the shadow of a six-story neon cactus, a seat cover store, a discount clothing warehouse, an Italian restaurant with a leaning tower attached to it.

Before us, beyond a little wall of a height to lean upon, on an isolated lawn, beneath the shade of great trees with interwoven boughs, a circular basin displays its still surface, across which the skating Hydrometra traces its wide circles.

I have done nothing about her, or about any of them, nothing all winter long, and now March is almost upon us-the red skating flag will come down over the park and once again we will be into polio season.

Its reflection danced in the slivery lake ice, not quite solid enough for skating.

The crowd shifted, and there was Soli calmly stroking close to the red stripe separating the skating lane from the sled lane.

Yet when John Quincy asked if he might buy ice skates that winter, Adams consented without hesitation, explaining that skating should be considered a fine art.

Bully and Bawly, the two boy frogs, were just getting ready to go out roller skating, and Mr.

They left the Shih Grove, then, skating below the icefalls and the great, looming ice sculptures of the Elf Gardens.

Shih Grove, then, skating below the icefalls and the great, looming ice sculptures of the Elf Gardens.

Buick and a yellow Opel Kadet, the last rays of the setting sun skating sideways across the sleek red hood.