ice-skate

verb (used without object), ice-skat·ed, ice-skat·ing.

1. to skate on ice.

noun

1. a shoe fitted with a metal blade for skating on ice.
2. skate¹(def 3).

noun

1. a boot having a steel blade fitted to the sole to enable the wearer to glide swiftly over ice
2. the steel blade on such a boot or shoe

verb ice-skate

3. (intr) to glide swiftly over ice on ice skates

v.

1690s, from ice (n.) + skate (n.2). The verb usually was simply skate until the advent of roller-skating mid-18c. made distinction necessary.