figure skate
- noun
- /ˈfɪɡjər skeɪt/
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patín artístico
- During her lesson, she showed off her skills by performing a spin on her figure skate.
This week on GMM we are doing an episode where Rhett and Link are going to be chopping onions with various pointy and sharp things, one of them being figure skates.
- This week on GMM we are doing an episode where Rhett and Link are going to be chopping onions with various pointy and sharp things, one of them being figure skates.
Examples
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If I take this to the rink, meet me outside on the rink with figure skates on in a Tutu demo fight.
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The young girl received her first pair of figure skates as a gift, eager to join the skating team.
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At the rink, the coach advised all the beginners to wear figure skates for better balance while learning.
Synonyms
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1.7
A shoe with a blade or wheels that you wear to glide on a smooth surface
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1.0
A boot with a metal blade that lets you move on ice
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Surface Forms
Morphology
While 'skate' (to glide on skates) is transparent, the sense of 'figure' here (performing planned shapes or artistic patterns on ice) is a specialized, sport-specific extension of 'figure' that a B1 learner might not infer from the basic noun meaning 'shape'. The overall meaning is partially derivable but relies on knowledge of the established sports term 'figure skating', so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Figure skate The noun figure skate comes from skaters who used a special figure skate to trace 'figures' — clear shapes and patterns — on the ice. The blade's small teeth and curved shape helped with jumps and spins, so the name came to mean the skate used for artistic skating.