skating
French, noun\skɛ.tiŋ\
skating is spelled S-K-A-T-I-N-G (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 88,451st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Skating is a French masculine noun meaning “skating” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Patinage à patins à roulettes ou à patins à glace”.
What does skating mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineskating
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Patinage à patins à roulettes ou à patins à glace. 2. (Ski de randonnée) Technique de glisse, variante du ski de fond, créée dans les années 2000 et inspirée par le patinage.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of skating
- skatings plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce skating?
- \skɛ.tiŋ\
- \ske.tiŋ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is skating in French?
skating appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).