any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
Also called: water strider, water skater
Examples of 'pond-skater' in a sentence
pond-skater
An excursus on the habits of the insect known as the pond-skater is at best tangential.