I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
figure skating
ice skate
in-line skate
roller skate
skating rink
speed skating
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ice
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But picture yourself on ice skates for the first time.
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A child with low motor tone has much the same challenges as you would as you struggle on ice skates .
park
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In the skate park , a 2 1 / 2-hour session will cost $ 4 during the week.
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The city-funded complex will boast an in-line hockey arena, a soccer arena and a 20, 000-square-foot skate park .
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The skate park is crammed with ramps, bowls and railings for users to perform tricks on.
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And the city of Escondido is scheduled to open its 20, 000-square-foot skate park today.
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The YMCAs in Encinitas and Mission Valley offer skate parks for their members.
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With no skate parks in the area, he had an idea about what could be successful.
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It decided to add the skate park early last year after listening to local teen-agers lament having nowhere to skate.
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The new skate park was designed to be safe and will be operated that way, he said.
roller
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She follows a man on roller skates and disappears off round Oxford on her own.
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All we do is dance and roller skate .&038;.
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There were kids everywhere in heavy coats, girls carrying roller skates , posse boys in hats carrying sticks.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (walking/treading/skating) on thin ice
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He was on thin ice before.
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It had been granted grudgingly and she knew she was on thin ice as far as her superiors were concerned.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But in-line skates were a $ 700 million business and growing at 20 percent a year, Wakefield said.
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I suspect that most sensible designers would think in terms of something more like a skate .
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Ice skates were only a $ 74 million business.
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Louis' blue and red, canceled the morning skate .
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The only thing it hasn't got is a decent skate shop.
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The park is pretty dialled in with a food shop, skate shop, and the midi ramp.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
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Christchurch Borough Council near Bournemouth have a similar set-up, with indoor quarters to skate on .
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Water to skate on in the winter, to sit by in the summer.
over
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In all these approaches, influences on language other than gender are skated over .
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Gretzky was visibly upset after skating over to check on his wife.
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The truck was skidding all over the autobahn, skating over the ice-rink surface.
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Wayne Gretzky, visibly shaken, skated over to check on his wife during a 10-minute delay in the game.
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The Minister skated over the details of the boards.
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Now and then when some one chased a misfired puck, one of them would skate over and ask what was going on.
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Biological versions of woman-centred psychology also tend, even more than woman-centred feminism generally, to skate over social differences.
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Her brain skated over what form she wanted that conclusion to take.
■ NOUN
figure
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Instead, said the announcer, here were the figure skating finals from Vienna.
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Take the Stars on Ice figure skating show as an example.
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It was rather like figure skating but less spangly.
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Records, is among the thousands of devoted followers who have raised figure skating to new heights of popularity.
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And when Galindo won, so did figure skating .
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Women control the clicker in prime time; they love figure skating .
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In 1990, there were only 18 total hours of figure skating on all the networks combined.
ice
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And that's fairly thin ice on which to skate one's credibility!
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Take the Stars on Ice figure skating show as an example.
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I remember that I liked ice skating on the flooded baseball field in winter.
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He started ice skating at 7, then switched to soccer, wrestling, boxing and weightlifting.
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Writing fiction is always like making one of those double axels in ice skating .
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Other winter days, they all went ice skating on the pond at Jackson Park.
roller
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A couple of middle-aged men with bluish legs were roller skating along the middle of the road.
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She has taken to roller skates to speed up her travel in New York.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (skating) on thin ice
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Legally, the company is on very thin ice with its actions.
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You're skating on thin ice , showing up late for work every day.
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He was on thin ice before.
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It had been granted grudgingly and she knew she was on thin ice as far as her superiors were concerned.
be (walking/treading/skating) on thin ice
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He was on thin ice before.
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It had been granted grudgingly and she knew she was on thin ice as far as her superiors were concerned.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A buyer for the long haul would not skate far past the optimal point and towards bankruptcy costs.
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Gretzky was visibly upset after skating over to check on his wife.
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I skate down the road a bit before I shout at cops - or anyone that was giving me some shit.
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She was 20 and worried about missing a year of skating.
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Take the Stars on Ice figure skating show as an example.
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The disaster started when Sandstrom was allowed to skate the puck unimpeded between Cam Neely and Bourque at the left point.
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You are being foolish, I told myself, as the lights of cars and houses skated by.