means Skates are wheeled or bladed devices strapped to or built into footwear that let you glide across ice or hard ground.

from From the Dutch 'schaats,' itself borrowed from an Old French word 'eschasse' meaning 'stilt' or 'leg-support' — the Dutch took it, applied it to their ice-gliding blades, and English sailors and traders carried it home. Curiously, English speakers misread the Dutch 'schaats' as already plural and lopped off a supposed 's,' giving us the singular 'skate' — a back-formation that means the word we now treat as basic is really a misunderstanding wearing two boots.