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How to spell skating

hear itskat·ing/'skeɪtɪŋ/nounLong vowels

What it means: The sport or action of gliding on ice or wheels.

In a sentence: We went skating on the frozen pond.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as skateing or scating.

Same family: skate, skater, skated, ice-skating, roller-skating. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Skating comes from the verb “skate,” which likely comes from Dutch words related to a ‘stilt’ or ‘runner’ used for gliding on ice. The modern -ing form turns it into the name of the activity or sport.

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