Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Pertaining to the technique of skating.
To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates. · To skateboard. · To use the skating technique. · To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice. · Ellipsis of ice skate. · Ellipsis of roller skate. · The act of skateboarding
Back-formation from Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch schāetse, from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”) (compare French échasse and English scatch), from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *skakkjā (“stilt”, literally “thing that moves”), related to *skakan (“to shake, swing”).
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