(~s, skating, ~d)
1.
Skates are ice-~s.
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2.
Skates are roller-~s.
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3.
If you ~, you move about wearing ice-~s or roller-~s.
I actually ~d, and despite some teetering I did not fall on the ice...
Dan ~d up to him.
VERB: V, V adv/prep
skating
They all went skating together in the winter.
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~r (~rs)
West Lake, an outdoor ice-skating rink, attracts ~rs during the day and night.
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4.
A ~ is a kind of flat sea fish.
Boats had plenty of mackerel and a few ~.
= ray
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Skate is this fish eaten as food.
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5.
If you ~ over or round a difficult subject, you avoid discussing it.
Scientists have tended to ~ over the difficulties of explaining dreams...
When pressed, he ~s around the subject of those women who he met as a 19-year-old.
VERB: V over n, V round/around n