skate over/around
phrasal verb
skated over/around; skating over/around; skates over/around
: to avoid talking about (something) especially because it is difficult to talk about or embarrassing
He skated over the issue.
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Bike, scooter, skateboard, or in-line skate around the block.
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Catherine Holecko, Parents, 30 July 2024
Next came trouble focusing and a feeling of pressure in my head; my eyes seemed to skate over the Google doc on my computer screen.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 28 June 2024
Blommaert’s blunt, birdlike Bobbi is unceremoniously terrific at the center of a cast that’s all nailing the play’s stylistic demand: its need for its actors to skate over an extremely dark lake on the thin ice of humor and human oddity.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2024
Peach has to jump and twirl to defeat enemies and clear obstacles and that can be frustrating because players skate around doing wide turns.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
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Catherine Holecko, Parents, 30 July 2024
Next came trouble focusing and a feeling of pressure in my head; my eyes seemed to skate over the Google doc on my computer screen.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 28 June 2024
Blommaert’s blunt, birdlike Bobbi is unceremoniously terrific at the center of a cast that’s all nailing the play’s stylistic demand: its need for its actors to skate over an extremely dark lake on the thin ice of humor and human oddity.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2024
Peach has to jump and twirl to defeat enemies and clear obstacles and that can be frustrating because players skate around doing wide turns.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
See all Example Sentences for skate over/around
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“Skate over/around.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skate%20over%2Faround. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
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