Define Skating Meaning

Naval slang, getting out of work, lollygagging

To do meth.

Australian people refer to methamphetamine as ice, therefore the expression.

Can refer to the acts of: skateboarding, rollerblading, ice skating, etc.

To ride on rims; in corelation to calling them blades (skating blades- ice skating)

a dance used n detroit while its looks like your skating but jus movn your feet n a skating way 2 a beat

the act of convincing your friends to put small wheels on their shoes then laugh as they fall down and wreck themselves

in basketball, a ball handler performs a dribble move or two that makes the defender disoriented and unable to defend the ball handler leaving him open.

drive by screaming. The action of driving by a group of people, or a single lonely person and screaming at them to scare them.

to do drugs mostly smoking weed

This is Westcountry slang dating back to before the First World War. Skates are very slippery fish and the name was applied to people who had slippery natures in that they were untrustworthy, would try to avoid giving information or were just not very likeable. The use of the name expanded to include people who were wheeler dealers or people who do a lot of ducking and diving but no actual work. The name is disparaging but at the same time may hold just a hint of reluctant admiration. It is, however, a warning as a skate has no conscience and is totally unscrupulous and untrustworthy. The term is believed to have been used extensively by the British armed forces and was used to describe someone who was a slippery customer, fishy and who avoided their share of the work.