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Spell Bee Word: Skating


What does skating mean?

Word: Skating

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Skating means the sport of gliding over ice or a smooth floor on special boots with blades or wheels.

How do you spell skating?

Syllables: skat - ing

Tricky part: The silent e at the end of the base word drops out before the ending is added, a step children often forget.

Watch out for: skateing, skatin

Memory tip: Bake becomes baking and ride becomes riding: skate drops its silent e in just the same way.

Skating in a sentence

Example 1: Every winter, people go ice skating on the open-air rink in Shimla.

Example 2: My sister has roller skating classes on Saturday mornings.

Example 3: Skating is not allowed on the smooth floor of the school hall.

Fun Fact

The oldest known ice skates were made thousands of years ago from animal bones strapped under the feet.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) swimming
b) gymnastics
c) scating
d) cycling

Show answer

c) scating. The hard sound at the start is written with a k here, as in ski.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

skatting

a) a
b) g
c) k
d) t

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d) t. After a long a sound the t stays single, as in hating.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Aarav fell twice on his first day of skaiting but kept trying.

a) first
b) fell
c) skaiting
d) trying

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c) skaiting. Skating takes a plain a, with no i after it.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where can you go ice skating?

a) on a sandy beach
b) on a grassy field
c) in a swimming pool
d) on a frozen rink

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d) on a frozen rink

2. Which season is best for skating on a frozen lake?

a) spring
b) summer
c) monsoon
d) winter

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d) winter

Associated Words

Next steps

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