Examples of skate

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They went skating on the pond behind her house.
In all these approaches, influences on language other than gender are skated over.
Perhaps the difficulty of achieving a genuinely pragmatic account of reference explains why this area is often skated over in pragmatics textbooks.
He didn't know he was skating on thin ice.
Extensive scientific exercises, football, hockey, and skating as well as preparations for sledge journeys kept them busy during the winters.
Inevitably this breadth means that much of the coverage is fairly general; and details of policy developments are largely skated over.
As she does so, she studiously gazes away from the area in which he is skating.
Unfortunately, the advent of the computer in the form of solid-state technologies and later digital technologies is skated over.
I usually say that now it's worth practicing skating skills before the school starts.
The still centre of the piece was 'snowfall on ashes', as caressing, feathery string tremolo harmonics traced a patina of frost on which the soloist skated nervously.
When we send the man on skates into the path of the trolley, this has a further mere causal effect of stopping the trolley and this saves the six.
More than critical accounts of class or" race", feminism is currently an important vehicle for bringing into psychology the social questions which the discipline skates over.
Biological versions of woman-centred psychology also tend, even more than woman-centred feminism generally, to skate over social differences.
A relatively short book must inevitably skate over some important matters.
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