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Skate or Skates may refer to:

Fish

• Skate (fish), several genera of fish belonging to the family Rajidae
• Pygmy skates, several genera of fish belonging to the family Gurgesiellidae
• Smooth skates or leg skates, several genera of fish belonging to the family Anacanthobatidae
• Softnose skates, several genera of fish belonging to the family Arhynchobatidae

Sports

• Ice skate
• Figure skate
• Inline skates
• Roller skates
• Skateboard
• Skate-skiing, a cross-country skiing technique
• Oakland Skates, former professional roller hockey team

Ships

• Skate (dinghy), national small sailboat class unique to Australia
• HMS Skate (1895), a Victorian era destroyer of the United Kingdom
• HMS Skate (1917), an R-class destroyer in commission from 1917 to 1947
• USS Skate, several submarines of the US Navy

People

• Skates (surname)

Other

• Skate of Marrister, Shetland
• Skate (series), an extreme sports video game series
  • Skate (2007 video game), the first game in the series
  • Skate (2025 video game), the fourth game in the series
• SKATE or Game of Skate, a skateboarding game
• Skates!, a book by Ezra Jack Keats
• ZTE Skate, an Android-based smartphone
• Skate, the code name for the October 1944 Bombing of Braunschweig
• "Skate" (song), a song by American superduo Silk Sonic
• "Skate", a remix of the song "Float" by Tim and the Glory Boys
• Skate punk, a subgenre of punk rock

See also

• Skater (disambiguation)
• Skating (disambiguation)
• SK8 (programming language), a multimedia environment developed by Apple
• Sk8 (TV series), an American television series that aired in 2001
• SK8-TV, an American television series that aired in 1990
• wheelskate, a device used to lift a vehicle with wheel damage to move it to a depot