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Slipping vs Skating - What's the difference?

slipping | skating |

As verbs the difference between slipping and skating

is that slipping is while skating is .

As nouns the difference between slipping and skating

is that slipping is the act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion while skating is the action or sport of moving along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.

slipping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion.
    • slippings and slidings

    skating

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The action or sport of moving along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
  • * 1854 , Charles Manby Smith, The working-man's way in the world (page 283)
    • My merry Christmas and first matrimonial plum-pudding, which I had a hand in compounding — the sprig of mistletoe which I bought for home-consumption, the walks in the parks and the skatings on the Serpentine during the two days' holiday

    Derived terms

    * figure skating * free skating * ice skating * park skating * roller skating * skating on thin ice * skating rink * ski skating * speed skating * street skating

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