skater

See also: Skater

English

Alternative forms

• sk8r (slang)

Etymology

From skate +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskeɪ.tə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

skater (plural skaters)

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

Synonyms

• (in ice hockey): field player
• (insect): water strider

Derived terms

• figure skater
• ice skater
• in-line skater
• pond-skater
• skater dress
• speed skater
• water skater

Translations

person who skates

• Albanian: patinator m
• Arabic: مُتَزَلِّج m (mutazallij)
• Armenian: չմշկորդ (hy) (čʻmškord)
• Azerbaijani: konkisürən
• Belarusian: канькабе́жац m (kanʹkabjéžac), канькабе́жка f (kanʹkabjéžka)
• Bulgarian: кънкьо́р m (kǎnkjór), кънкьо́рка f (kǎnkjórka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溜冰者 (liūbīngzhě), 滑冰者 (huábīngzhě)

• Czech: bruslař (cs) m, bruslařka (cs) f
• Danish: skøjteløber (da) c
• Dutch: schaatser (nl) m, skater (nl) m
• Estonian: uisutaja
• Finnish: luistelija (fi)
• French: patineur (fr) m, patineuse (fr) f, skateur (fr) m, skateuse (fr) f (skateboard)
• Georgian: მოციგურავე (mocigurave)
• German: Schlittschuhläufer (de) m, Schlittschuhläuferin (de) f, Eisläufer (de) m, Eisläuferin (de) f
• Greek: παγοδρόμος (el) m (pagodrómos)
• Hungarian: korcsolyázó (hu), (ice) jégkorcsolyázó, (roller) görkorcsolyázó, (skateboard) gördeszkás
• Icelandic: skautahlaupari m
• Italian: pattinatore (it) m, pattinatrice (it) f
• Japanese: スケートをする人 (スケートをするひと , sukēto o suru hito), スケーター (ja) (sukētā)
• Kazakh: конькиші (konkişı)
• Korean: 스케이트를 타는 사람 (seukeiteu-reul taneun saram)
• Latvian: slidotājs m
• Lithuanian: čiuožėjas m
• Macedonian: лизгач m (lizgač), лизгачка f (lizgačka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skøyteløper m

• Persian: اسکیت‌سوار (fa) (eskeyt-savâr), اسکیت‌باز (eskeyt-bâz)
• Polish: łyżwiarz (pl) m, łyżwiarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: patinador (pt) m
• Romanian: patinator (ro) m, patinatoare (ro) f
• Russian: конькобе́жец (ru) m (konʹkobéžec), конькобе́жка (ru) f (konʹkobéžka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: клѝза̄ч m, клиза̀чица f

  Roman: klìzāč (sh) m, klizàčica (sh) f

• Slovak: korčuliar m, korčuliarka f
• Slovene: drsalec (sl) m, drsalka (sl) f
• Spanish: patinador m, patinadora (es) f
• Swedish: skrinnare (sv) c, skridskoåkare (sv) c, skatare c (slang, mainly a person who rollerskates)
• Tajik: конкитоз (konkitoz)
• Thai: นักสเกต (nák-sà-gét)
• Turkish: patenci (tr)
• Ukrainian: ковзаня́р (uk) m (kovzanjár), ковзаня́рка (uk) f (kovzanjárka), конькобі́жець m (konʹkobížecʹ), конькобі́жка f (konʹkobížka)
• Uzbek: konʼkichi
• Vietnamese: người trượt băng
• Volapük: (♂♀ ice) sketan (vo), (♂) hisketan, (♀) jisketan, (♂♀ roller) luibilasketan, (♂) luibilahisketan, (♀) luibilajisketan, (older term, ♂♀ ice) gladajukan, (♂) gladahijukan, (♀) gladajijukan

member of skateboarding subculture

• Bulgarian: скейтборди́ст m (skejtbordíst), скейтборди́стка f (skejtbordístka)
• Esperanto: rultabulisto
• Finnish: skeittari (fi)
• Polish: skejt (pl) m
• Portuguese: skatista (pt) m or f
• Russian: скейтборди́ст (ru) m (skejtbordíst), скейтборди́стка f (skejtbordístka)
• Turkish: kaykaycı (tr)

ice hockey: player other than goaltender

• Finnish: kenttäpelaaja (fi)
• German: Feldspieler m

insect — see water strider

Anagrams

• Starke, Staker, tasker, Krastë, takers, strake, rakest, trakes, streak, Akters, retask, staker, tareks, Kaster, Tasker, sakret

Basque

Etymology

From English skater.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es̺kei̯ter/ [es̺.kei̯.t̪er]
• Rhymes: -ei̯ter, -er

Noun

skater anim

1. skateboarder

Declension

Declension of skater (animate, ending in consonant)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	skater	skater-a	skater-ak
ergative	skater-ek	skater-ak	skater-ek
dative	skater-i	skater-ari	skater-ei
genitive	skater-en	skater-aren	skater-en
comitative	skater-ekin	skater-arekin	skater-ekin
causative	skater-engatik	skater-arengatik	skater-engatik
benefactive	skater-entzat	skater-arentzat	skater-entzat
instrumental	skater-ez	skater-az	skater-ez
inessive	skater-engan	skater-arengan	skater-engan
locative	—	—	—
allative	skater-engana	skater-arengana	skater-engana
terminative	skater-enganaino	skater-arenganaino	skater-enganaino
directive	skater-enganantz	skater-arenganantz	skater-enganantz
destinative	skater-enganako	skater-arenganako	skater-enganako
ablative	skater-engandik	skater-arengandik	skater-engandik
partitive	skater-ik	—	—
prolative	skater-tzat	—	—

Related terms

• skate (“skateboard”)

Further reading

• “skater”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

French

Etymology

From English to skate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɛ.te/ ~ /ske.te/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

skater

1. to skateboard

Conjugation

Conjugation of skater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	skater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	skatant /skɛ.tɑ̃/ or /ske.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		skaté /skɛ.te/ or /ske.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	skate /skɛt/	skates /skɛt/	skate /skɛt/	skatons /skɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ske.tɔ̃/	skatez /skɛ.te/ or /ske.te/	skatent /skɛt/
	imperfect	skatais /skɛ.tɛ/ or /ske.tɛ/	skatais /skɛ.tɛ/ or /ske.tɛ/	skatait /skɛ.tɛ/ or /ske.tɛ/	skations /skɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ske.tjɔ̃/	skatiez /skɛ.tje/ or /ske.tje/	skataient /skɛ.tɛ/ or /ske.tɛ/
	past historic2	skatai /skɛ.te/ or /ske.te/	skatas /skɛ.ta/ or /ske.ta/	skata /skɛ.ta/ or /ske.ta/	skatâmes /skɛ.tam/ or /ske.tam/	skatâtes /skɛ.tat/ or /ske.tat/	skatèrent /skɛ.tɛʁ/ or /ske.tɛʁ/
	future	skaterai /skɛ.tʁe/ or /ske.tʁe/	skateras /skɛ.tʁa/ or /ske.tʁa/	skatera /skɛ.tʁa/ or /ske.tʁa/	skaterons /skɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ske.tʁɔ̃/	skaterez /skɛ.tʁe/ or /ske.tʁe/	skateront /skɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ske.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	skaterais /skɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ske.tʁɛ/	skaterais /skɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ske.tʁɛ/	skaterait /skɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ske.tʁɛ/	skaterions /skɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ske.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	skateriez /skɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ske.tə.ʁje/	skateraient /skɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ske.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	skate /skɛt/	skates /skɛt/	skate /skɛt/	skations /skɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ske.tjɔ̃/	skatiez /skɛ.tje/ or /ske.tje/	skatent /skɛt/
	imperfect2	skatasse /skɛ.tas/ or /ske.tas/	skatasses /skɛ.tas/ or /ske.tas/	skatât /skɛ.ta/ or /ske.ta/	skatassions /skɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /ske.ta.sjɔ̃/	skatassiez /skɛ.ta.sje/ or /ske.ta.sje/	skatassent /skɛ.tas/ or /ske.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	skate /skɛt/	—	skatons /skɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ske.tɔ̃/	skatez /skɛ.te/ or /ske.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• skateur

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

skater m (definite singular skateren, indefinite plural skatere, definite plural skaterne)

1. a skater (skateboarder)

Noun

skater m

1. indefinite plural of skate

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

skater f

1. indefinite plural of skate

Spanish

Noun

skater m (plural skaters or skater)

1. skater, skateboarder