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skateway - What does it mean?

Definition of 'skateway'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (rare) An ice rink or other route for ice skating.
  • * 1975 , Dennis Holloway, Huldah Curl, Franz C Hall, Winona: towards an energy conserving community
  • In the winter it would freeze over into a skateway .
  • * 1992 , West's federal reporter
  • One night after the incident, Stribling told a skateway employee, Crawford, that the rink had had trouble with a "nigger" (Johnson) the night before...
  • *{{quote-news|year=2007|date=February 2|author=Austin Considine|title=Snow or No, It’s a Party|work=New York Times citation
  • |passage=(Officials now say that thanks to the recent cold weather, the entire five-mile skateway is skate-worthy for the festival opening today.) }}