Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who skates, as on ice.
  • noun One who skateboards.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who skates.
  • noun One of many different aquatic heteropterous insects with long legs which glide over the surface of water as if skating, as Gerridæ; or Hydrobatidæ, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who skates.
  • noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects belonging to Gerris, Pyrrhocoris, Prostemma, and allied genera. They have long legs, and run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who skates

Etymologies

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skate +‎ -er.

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