skating

1. 1.

   the sport of gliding on skates

   Broadersport

   Narrowerice skatingroller skatingskateboardingspeed skating

Other forms of skating

plural

skatings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about skating

What does skating mean?

skating means "the sport of gliding on skates".

How many syllables are in skating?

skating has 2 syllables: ska-ting. The stress falls on "ska". In IPA it is /ˈskeɪtɪŋ/.

Is skating a common word?

skating is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.