figure skate

What does figure skate mean?

figure skate means "an ice skate worn for figure skating; has a slightly curved blade and a row of jagged points at the front of the blade". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is figure skate a common word?

figure skate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for figure skate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.