blading

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The sport of moving on inline skates, boots fitted with a single row of wheels.

   Blading along the waterfront has become a popular weekend pastime in the city.

   He prefers blading to cycling because it works different muscles.

   Similarrollerblading, skating

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of blade.

   He kept blading even after the rain started, weaving between the puddles.

   They were blading downtown when the streetlights came on.

   Note

   One spelling serves every verb blade, not only the skating one. The skaters' use is informal. Transitive uses take an object: blading a tool fits it with a blade, and blading someone means stabbing them. In poetry, a plant can be blading, putting forth blades. The slang sense of cutting someone, usually oneself, to draw blood lies behind the wrestling term.

3. 3
   verb

   In professional wrestling, deliberately cutting oneself, usually on the forehead, so that blood flows and the fight looks more spectacular.

   Blading was common in the old territory days to sell a brutal match.

   The promoter banned blading after the new safety rules came in.

   Note

   Here the wound serves the show rather than the fight. Wrestlers drew blood to make a match look more brutal, and the forehead was the usual place for the cut. As the name of a practice it behaves like a mass noun and takes no article: a promoter bans blading, and a match can be sold by it.

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