pos>n. One who skates on ice wearing an ice skate; esp. an athlete who performs athletic or artistic movements on a sheet of ice, wearing ice skates; a speed skater or a figure skater. [ PJC ]
2. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects belonging to Gerris, Pyrrhocoris, Prostemma, and allied genera. They have long legs, and run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating. [ 1913 Webster ]
[叶卡特琳娜堡 / 葉卡特琳娜堡, Yè kǎ tè lín nà bǎo, ㄧㄝˋ ㄎㄚˇ ㄊㄜˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄋㄚˋ ㄅㄠˇ]Ekaterinaburg or Ekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk), Russian town on the Ural mountains[Add to Longdo]
[みずすまし;ミズスマシ, mizusumashi ; mizusumashi](n) (1) (uk) whirligig beetle (any insect of family Gyrinidae, esp. the Japanese whirligig beetle, Gyrinus japonicus); (2) (See 水馬・あめんぼ) pond skater; water strider[Add to Longdo]