a typically large marine fish of the ray family with a cartilaginous skeleton and a flattened diamond-shaped body

an ice skate or roller skate

everyone was on skates

move on ice skates or roller skates in a gliding fashion

the boys were skating on the ice

pass over or refer only fleetingly to (a subject or problem)

she seemed to skate over the next part of her story

make quick and easy progress through

he admits he had expected to skate through the system

an uncouth and disreputable man