ice skate

Questions about ice skate

What does ice skate mean?

ice skate means "skate consisting of a boot with a steel blade fitted to the sole". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is ice skate a common word?

ice 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.