ice-skater

1. 1.

   someone who engages in ice skating

   Broaderskater

   Narrowerspeedskater

Questions about ice-skater

What does ice-skater mean?

ice-skater means "someone who engages in ice skating".

How many syllables are in ice-skater?

ice-skater has 4 syllables and divides as i-ce--ska-ter under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is ice-skater a common word?

ice-skater is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.