skater

noun

skat·​er ˈskā-tər How to pronounce skater (audio)
1
: one that skates
2

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Of the 920 skaters who laced it up for NHL clubs in 2024-25, 382 were born in Canada (41.5%), compared with 290 from the United States (31.5%). David K. Li, NBC news, 4 June 2025 Rust is an excellent skater, a tenacious puck retriever, and a prolific scorer. Harman Dayal, New York Times, 30 May 2025 Barkov owns basically every record of merit for a skater in Panthers franchise history — games played (804), goals (286), assists (496), points (782), power-play goals (84), game-winning goals (52), multipoint games (209), multigoal games (33), the list keeps going. Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025 She was born in Massachusetts to Nigerian immigrants and, as a teen, was an exceptional figure skater: one who could land double axels with a practiced ease that betrayed the intense commitment behind them. Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for skater

Word History

First Known Use

1700, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of skater was in 1700

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“Skater.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skater. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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