Stingray vs. Skate — What's the Difference?

Stingrays are a group of sea rays, which are cartilaginous fish related to sharks. They are classified in the suborder Myliobatoidei of the order Myliobatiformes and consist of eight families: Hexatrygonidae (sixgill stingray), Plesiobatidae (deepwater stingray), Urolophidae (stingarees), Urotrygonidae (round rays), Dasyatidae (whiptail stingrays), Potamotrygonidae (river stingrays), Gymnuridae (butterfly rays), and Myliobatidae (eagle rays).Stingrays are common in coastal tropical and subtropical marine waters throughout the world.

An ice skate, roller skate, or inline skate.

Any of various rays chiefly of the family Dasyatidae, having a whiplike tail armed with one or more venomous spines used for defense. Also called stingaree.

(Informal) A skateboard.

Any of various large, venomous rays, of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes, having a barbed, whiplike tail.

The act or a period of skating or skateboarding

A device that simulates a cell tower, used to intercept cell phone communications.

Any of various cartilaginous fishes chiefly of the family Rajidae, having a flattened body with greatly expanded pectoral fins that extend around the head, and laying eggs enclosed in hard cases.

Large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds

A fellow; a person.

A decrepit horse; a nag.

To glide or move along on skates.

To move or progress in a smooth, easy, or unconcerned manner

To ride or perform tricks on a skateboard.

A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.

Abbreviation of ice skate

Abbreviation of roller skate

The act of skateboarding

The act of roller skating or ice skating

A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body.

A worn-out horse.

A mean or contemptible person.

To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.

To skateboard.

(skiing) To use the skating technique.

(slang) To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.

To move smoothly and easily.

(skiing) Pertaining to the technique of skating.

A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, - made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice.

Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal fin. The pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. The skin is more or less spinose.

To move on skates.

Sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along on wheels and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs

Large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins

Move along on skates;