speed skater

1. 1.

   an ice-skater who races competitively; usually around an oval course

   Synonymsspeedskater

   Broaderice-skater

Questions about speed skater

What does speed skater mean?

speed skater means "an ice-skater who races competitively; usually around an oval course".

What is another word for speed skater?

Close synonyms include speedskater. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is speed skater a common word?

speed 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.