glide vs skate

glide and skate both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
glide	Yes	No	Yes	No
skate	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, skate is a hyponym of glide; that is, skate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than glide:

Other hyponyms of glide include skid, slew, slide, slip, slue, coast, skitter, snake, plane, skim, surf, surfboard, body-surf, snowboard.

glide (noun)	skate (noun)
the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it	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
the activity of flying a glider	sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs
a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

glide (verb)	skate (verb)
move smoothly and effortlessly	move along on skates
fly in or as if in a glider plane
cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly