ice-skate
ice-skate — noun
1. a boot fitted with a narrow strip of metal along the bottom, so the wearer can g
a boot fitted with a narrow strip of metal along the bottom, so the wearer can glide quickly across a frozen surface
Meera laced up her white ice skates at the edge of the frozen pond.
countable: a pair of ice skates
Takeshi sharpened his ice skates the night before the school competition.
collocation: sharpen ice skates
A pair of black ice skates hung from a hook in the wooden hut by the rink.
Beatriz borrowed her cousin's old ice skates because the rental shop had run out.
The coach told Chidi that his ice skates were one size too big for safe turns.
- skates
shorter informal form; understood as ice skates from context
- figure skates
specific type with a toe pick at the front, used for figure skating
- hockey skates
specific type with a rounded blade and no toe pick, used for ice hockey
- roller skates
wheeled footwear for hard surfaces, not ice
- inline skates
wheels arranged in a single line; also for hard ground, not ice
文法句型
a pair of ice skates
用法筆記
Almost always plural in everyday use — a single skate is rarely referenced on its own; speakers say 'a pair of ice skates' or just 'her ice skates'.
常見錯誤
ice-skate — verb
- ice-skatepresent simple I / you / we / they
- ice-skates3rd person singular
- ice-skating-ing form
- ice-skatedpast simple
1. to travel along a frozen surface by wearing boots with thin metal blades and pus
to travel along a frozen surface by wearing boots with thin metal blades and pushing forward with the feet
Élise loves to ice-skate on the lake near her grandmother's village every winter.
ice-skate + on + location
Daniel learned how to ice-skate when his family moved to Montreal.
learn how to ice-skate
Camila and her two brothers ice-skated for three hours at the outdoor rink in the city square.
Defne fell twice while trying to ice-skate backwards for the first time.
Eitan promised the children they could ice-skate after the snow stopped falling.
- skate
shorter form; in winter contexts it usually implies skating on ice
- figure-skate
specifically refers to the artistic style with jumps and spins
- roller-skate
to travel on wheels over a hard surface rather than on ice
文法句型
ice-skate + on/at + location
go ice-skating
用法筆記
Often appears as the gerund 'ice-skating' in fixed phrases such as 'go ice-skating' or 'enjoy ice-skating'; the bare verb form is more common in instructions and reports of single events.