skateway

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noun

An ice rink or other route for ice skating.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounskateway (plural skateways)

plural skateways

  1. rareAn ice rink or other route for ice skating.

    In the winter it would freeze over into a skateway.

    1975, Dennis Holloway, Huldah Curl, Franz C Hall, Winona: towards an energy conserving community
    2 more examples

    One night after the incident, Stribling told a skateway employee, Crawford, that the rink had had trouble with a "nigger" (Johnson) the night before...

    1992, West's federal reporter

    (Officials now say that thanks to the recent cold weather, the entire five-mile skateway is skate-worthy for the festival opening today.)

    2007 February 2, Austin Considine, “Snow or No, It’s a Party”, in New York Times

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

skateway. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skateway

MLA

“skateway.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skateway. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “skateway,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skateway.

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