How to Use ice skate in a Sentence

ice skate

noun
  • In the early 1900s, Chicagoans used the pond to ice skate.
    Madeline Buckley, chicagotribune.com, 29 Nov. 2020
  • She’s done her own stunts (in heels) and learned to ice skate like a pro.
    Women's Health, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Slice of Ice is free for skaters to use with their own ice skates.
    Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Not to buy slacks and a pretzel or to ice skate but to watch a baseball game.
    oregonlive.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • When his daughters were young, Singer brought them here to ice skate.
    Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2018
  • Isn’t there someone out there who wants to trade those size 8 ice skates for a size 9?
    Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 7 June 2023
  • Visitors must pay to ice skate, prices range from $8 to $14.
    Emma Quasny, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Rink visitors can rent ice skates for $4 per pair or bring their own skates to the venue.
    Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • In the winter, strap on a pair of ice skates, snowshoes, or cross-country skis.
    Daniel Otis, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Patrons are welcome to bring their own ice skates as well.
    Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Can’t the sliding motion of ice skates on the surface generate enough heat to melt the ice?
    Brian Resnick, Vox, 31 Jan. 2019
  • Geri’s older sons, Jason and Jeff, both teenagers at the time, taught Athenas how to play hockey and ice skate.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 26 June 2019
  • Watch puppets talk, and a train chug from Russia to France, and a cartoon mouse glide about on ice skates.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Will the praise be enough to jettison the ice skating tale into the Oscars race?
    Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2017
  • On a recent weekend, the pair took their sons, Antoni, 9, and Adrian, 6, on the short drive to the coast to ice skate and picnic on the frozen sea.
    New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Lace up those skates Grab your ice skates (or, more likely, your wallet.
    Adam Lukach, RedEye Chicago, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Fritzy Finds a Hat follows the ice skating son of a woman with cancer.
    Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • So what happens when an ice skate made from aluminum or steel touches the ice?
    Brian Resnick, Vox, 31 Jan. 2019
  • The front door is adorned with a wreath fashioned from frosted pine cones, ribbon, and a pair of miniature ice skates.
    Sally A. Downey, Philly.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Mia ice skates, collects fairy figurines and dotes on her pets — a dog, frogs and a tarantula.
    Teresa Watanabe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2019
  • Andrea Romano is a freelance writer in NYC and does not know how to ice skate, but does know how to shop.
    Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The video is complete with ice skating Santas and Carey in her own version of a Santa suit.
    Chloe Melas, CNN, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The escape artist continues to struggle with the pesky gate, sliding around on the floor like a toddler on ice skates.
    Alexis Hobbs, Woman's Day, 10 Aug. 2015
  • There are plenty of places nearby to ice skate, downhill ski and cross-country ski.
    cleveland.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The whole family can ice skate with views of the Detroit skyline at the rink at Campus Martius.
    Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Of course, women (like men) have been skating, as a means of transport or recreation, for about as long as ice skates have been around.
    Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2018
  • One day, a good friend of mine took Elliotte ice skating with her daughter after school.
    Marla Sokoloff, PEOPLE.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Henie was 5 years old, the story goes, when her older brother, Leif, got a pair of ice skates for his birthday.
    Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Tonya Harding is trading ice skates for dancing shoes — and many Dancing with the Stars fans aren’t too happy about it.
    Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The home also has a detached gym and a boat dock on a large pond where Ms. Kerzner and her family fish and swim in the summer and ice skate in the winter.
    Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 23 July 2018

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