0 a special boot with a thin metal bar attached to the bottom that you wear to move quickly on ice, or a boot with four small wheels fixed to the bottom so that you can move over a hard surface -- 溜冰鞋；滑冰鞋
1 a large, flat sea fish that can be eaten as food -- 鰩魚（一種扁體海魚，可食用）
2 to move, or make a particular movement on a surface, using skates -- 滑冰，溜冰
He cut some skilful figures over some thin ice but his skates bore him safely to an elegant conclusion.
There has been a good deal of skating around federalism.
We shall, therefore, need to get our skates on to get it passed.
He skated over it when he told us the subsidy would be somewhere about £4,500,000.
Every speaker in this debate has skated over thin ice.
I could have sought a bland form of words which would have skated over the issues.
I found the previous debate very unsatisfactory because we were skating round the issues.
No wonder the document skates over that subject.
