What does skating mean?
Skating means present participle and gerund of skate.
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/ˈskeɪtɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of skate.
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
My merry Christmas and first matrimonial plum-pudding, which I had a hand in compounding — the sprig of mistletoe which I bought for home-consumption, the walks in the parks and the skatings on the Serpentine during the two days' holiday[…]
It was as if she had that morning been transferred back over forty years to her youth again, and was having the good times that she had longed for, such as other girls had—the swings, and the rides, and the skatings, and bicyclings.
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Skating means present participle and gerund of skate.
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In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
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