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skate

[skayt] / skeɪt /


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He founded his first company, Westbeach Snowboard, in 1979, to sell surf, skate and snowboard gear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Other tour boats skate around the limestone coast fringed with wind-blasted greenery.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Most accounts of the American Revolution skate right over the ill-fated invasion of Quebec in 1775, months before the Declaration of Independence.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

The skate park ultimately opened a few blocks away, allowing the parcel to become part of an expanded campus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

It feels warm on my back as I skate fast up Las Flores and down Mumford.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

You have exactly what you need and don’t need roller skates to get around it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

In the basement: what I believe are my first pair of hockey skates, a broken papier-mâché Groucho Marx puppet, and a Green Bay Packers helmet I hand-painted in fourth grade.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

In addition to those quirky flavor names like Smokey Dokey and Here Comes Truffle, it was selling holographic roller skates and being pen pals with fans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Growing up in Quebec, the midfielder said he was fitted for hockey skates long before he tried on soccer cleats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

She kicked the skates aside and positioned a soccer ball in their place.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

In her memoir, Yes Please, she thanks her parents for always clapping when she roller skated in the driveway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Kate said she was unhappy with the response and felt the health board "skated over" the issues, adding that doctors should have "realised sooner that it wasn't just a skin condition".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Pro 7, which ran an advertising campaign in which their mascot held an Olympic flame or curled, skated or bob-sledded down a supermarket aisle, was fined a total of 550,000 euros.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

From the white arm chair positioned near the corner of the rink, Glenn hyped Liu up during the final group’s six-minute warmup, dancing along to K-pop songs and cheering each time Liu skated by.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

They cheered for Bess as she skated out on the ice.

From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene

Some buildings are still closed, but many have been renovated or reimagined, like one damaged structure that has been turned into an outdoor skating rink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The ice events will now be hosted in Lyon, with the exception of speed skating, which will take place in Heerenveen in the Netherlands.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

In warmer weather, you can rent kayaks, wave runners and paddleboards or take a seasonal cruise aboard the Lake Lawn Queen; winter brings cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, ice skating, ice fishing and sledding.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

It provides investors with yet another reason to worry that the stock market is skating on thin ice.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

She said she’d married a bearish man in an amusement park and that he’d planned to escape Cuba, to take a fishing boat north and go ice skating.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García


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